Quotes · Quote card
Quotation from Philebus by Plato
“A gift of heaven, which, as I conceive, the gods tossed among men by the hands of a new Prometheus, and therewith a blaze of light”
Philebus, Stephanus 16c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Socrates introduces the method of finding the definite number of kinds between one and the unlimited as the source of every discovery in the arts.
Citation: "A gift of heaven, which, as I conceive, the gods tossed among men by the hands of a new Prometheus, and therewith a blaze of light" — Plato, Philebus, Stephanus 16c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-philebus-q1)
