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Full Idea
The bodiless things, being the most beautiful and the greatest, are only shown with clarity by speech and nothing else.
Gist of Idea
Non-physical beauty can only be shown clearly by speech
Source
Plato (The Statesman [c.356 BCE], 286a)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Statesman', ed/tr. Bernadete,Seth [University of Chicago 1986], p.37
A Reaction
Unfortunately this will be true of warped and ugly ideas as well.
| 16125 | To reveal a nature, divide down, and strip away what it has in common with other things [Plato] |
| 279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |
| 5961 | The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato] |
| 281 | The arts produce good and beautiful things by preserving the mean [Plato] |
| 16123 | Whenever you perceive a community of things, you should also hunt out differences in the group [Plato] |
| 16124 | No one wants to define 'weaving' just for the sake of weaving [Plato] |
| 282 | Non-physical beauty can only be shown clearly by speech [Plato] |
| 22559 | Democracy is the worst of good constitutions, but the best of bad constitutions [Plato, by Aristotle] |
| 283 | The question of whether or not to persuade comes before the science of persuasion [Plato] |