When passing from the Academy to the Lyceum, he did not change his clothes; he would often first make a sacrifice to Aristotle and then end by worshipping Plato. He always got angry at those who actually tried to build a dividing wall between the two [sacred] enclosures and to separate them. For he felt that Aristotle’s philosophy is an excellent preliminary rite to Plato’s frenzy and, at the same time, a defensive wall and safeguard for it. Plato’s philosophy is still too accessible, still assailable... read more
