Plato Quote

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.


The Republic 7 529a, trans. P. Shorey (1935), Vol. 2, Book 7, 179–81


For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher...

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher...

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher...

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher...