Introduction7on earth: wisdom is invisible to mortal eyes.
This quote struck me as well, it would be interesting to hear other people's view on it.
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When a thousand years have elapsed the souls meet together and choose the lives which they will lead for another period of existence
I've never really been interested in religion, I never understood it as a kid and still don't now, I find it compelling how people have these thoughts of what happens after we die. Ideas that have no evidence, such as that we turn into different people thousands of years later, or reincarnation.
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Introduction5vading the Cratylus and Io, he connects with madness by an etymological explanation (mantike, manike--compare oion-oistike, oionistike, ''tis all one reckoning, save the phrase is a little variations'); secondly, there is the art of purification by mysteries; thirdly, poetry or the inspiration of the Muses (compare Ion), without which no man can enter their tem-ple. All this shows that madness is one of heaven's bless-ings, and may sometimes be a great deal better than sense. There is also a fourth kind of madness--that of love--which cannot be explained without enquiring into the nature of the soul. All soul is immortal, for she is the source of all motion both in herself and in others. Her form may be described in a figure as a composite nature made up of a charioteer and a pair of winged steeds. The steeds of the gods are immor-tal, but ours are one mortal and the other immortal. The immortal soul soars upwards into the heavens, but the mortal drops her plumes and settles upon the earth. Now the use of the wing is to rise and carry the downward element into the upper world
This reminds me of the bad apple discussion. This quote is basically talking about spreading negativity
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