Full Idea
Philosophers must rise up out of becoming and grasp being, if they are ever to become rational.
Gist of Idea
To become rational, philosophers must rise from becoming into being
Source
Plato (The Republic [c.371 BCE], 525b)
Book Reference
Plato: 'Complete Works', ed/tr. Cooper,John M. [Hackett 1997], p.1142
A Reaction
I am never quite sure what 'being' means in such contexts, and it seems suffused with mysticism. In Plato's case, it is obviously related to what is unchanging, but why would something lack 'being', just because it underwent change?