Full Idea
Plato measured the degree of reality by the degree of value.
Gist of Idea
Plato measured the degree of reality by the degree of value
Source
comment on Plato (The Republic [c.371 BCE], 518d) by Friedrich Nietzsche - The Will to Power (notebooks) §572
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Will to Power', ed/tr. Kaufmann,W /Hollingdate,R [Vintage 1968], p.308
A Reaction
A most interesting comment. It epitomises the Nietzschean reading of Plato, in which the will to power leads the sense of value, which in turn creates the metaphysics.