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Single Idea 279

[from 'The Statesman' by Plato, in 28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature ]

Full Idea

It is fitting for only the most divine things of all to be always the same and in the same state and in the same respects, and the nature of body is not of this ordering.

Gist of Idea

Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that

Source

Plato (The Statesman [c.356 BCE], 269b)

Book Reference

Plato: 'Statesman', ed/tr. Bernadete,Seth [University of Chicago 1986], p.18