Full Idea
Space exists for ever and is indestructible, and acts as the arena for everything that is subject to creation. It is grasped by a kind of bastard reasoning, without the support of sensation, and is hardly credible.
Gist of Idea
Space is eternal and indestructible, but is only known by barely credible reasoning
Source
Plato (Timaeus [c.362 BCE], 52b)
Book Reference
Plato: 'Timaeus and Critias', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 2008], p.45
A Reaction
I'm struck by the thought that space and time are features of nature which are indestructible. Space seems to resemble what Timaeus calls the 'receptacle' for creation. When we move don't we have a spatial sensation?