Socrates' Children Quotes

“If Plato was the first great philosophical writer, Socrates, his teacher, was the first great philosopher. Plato was to Socrates what Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paul were to Jesus. (Socrates, like Jesus and Buddha, wrote nothing. He was too busy doing it to publish it.) And Aristotle, Plato’s prime pupil, is to the West what Confucius is to China: the archetype of common sense, the one whom subsequent thinkers either build on as a primary foundation or attack as a primary opponent”
― Peter Kreeft, Socrates' Children Volume II: Medieval Philosophers

“The finite and the infinite are “incommensurable” (not related even by proper analogy); there is no proportion between them. Precision, or clarity, or exactness, is simply impossible here. All distinctions between”
― Peter Kreeft, Socrates' Children: Medieval: The 100 Greatest Philosophers