Full Idea
To try to set apart everything from everything is not only especially jangling, but it is the mark of someone altogether unmusical and unphilosophic.
Gist of Idea
The desire to split everything into its parts is unpleasant and unphilosophical
Source
Plato (The Sophist [c.358 BCE], 259e)
Book Reference
Plato: 'The Sophist', ed/tr. Bernadete,Seth [University of Chicago 1986], p.57