For the uninformed: "The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." Alfred

For the uninformed: "The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 39 [Free Press, 1979]; <https://www.age-of-the-sage.org/philosophy/footnotes_plato.html https://www.age-of-the-sage.org/philosophy/footnotes_plato.h...> (There's a fair bit of truth to this.)