Reviving The Pagan Mystery Religions
Platonic Realism is the view that abstract objects exists independent of human mind
The Emperor's New Mind, London, Vintage, 1990
Sir Roger Penrose
My sympathies lie strongly with the Platonistic view that mathematical truth is absolute, external, and eternal, and not based on man-made criteria; and that mathematical objects have a timeless existence of their own, not dependent on human society nor on particular physical objects.
Un atome de Sagesse, Le Seuil, 1982, p. 115.
Bernard D'Espagnat
Plato’s ideas do not belong to space-time but they exist independently of the human mind and are the cause of phenomena. Bohm himself, previously a standard bearer of the “materialist” physicists, even says now that perceived objects are only projections of what exists.
The debate between Plato and Democritus
Werner Heisenberg
I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.
Unpublished Text Of Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture
Kurt Gödel
It is correct that a mathematical proposition says nothing about the physical reality existing in space and time. What is wrong, is that the meaning of these terms is asserted to be something man-made. The truth, I believe, is that these concepts form an objective reality of their own, which we cannot create or change.
A Mathematician’s Apology, London, 1941
Godfrey Harold Hardy
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our “creations,” are simply the notes of our observations.
Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)
Alfred North Whitehead
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Upon The Sovereign Sun (362)
Julian The Emperor
I am aware that the great Plato himself, and after him, a man posterior to him in date, though not in mind, I mean Iamblichus of Chalcis did both of them as far as hypothesis goes, take for granted the fact of a Creation and assumed the universe to have been, in a certain sense, the Work of Time.
Chaldaean Oracles and Theurgy
Hans Yochanan Lewy
The Chaldaeans distinguished between two fiery bodies: one possessed of a noetic nature and the visible sun. The former was said to conduct the latter. According to Proclus, the Chaldaeans call the "solar world" situated in the supramundane region "entire light." The supramundane sun was known to them as time of time.
Proclus on The Timaeus of Plato
Proclus
The Sun being supermundane emits the fountains of light. And according to the most mystic doctrines, the wholeness of the Sun is in the supermundane orders; for in them there is a solar world, and a total light, as the Chaldean Oracles assert, and which I am persuaded is true. And thus much concerning these things.