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Quotation from Sophist by Plato
“the philosopher, always holding converse through reason with the idea of being, is also dark from excess of light”
Sophist, The greatest kinds, c. 254a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
The Stranger contrasts the sophist, who hides in the darkness of not-being, with the philosopher, who is hard to see for the opposite reason.
Citation: "the philosopher, always holding converse through reason with the idea of being, is also dark from excess of light" — Plato, Sophist, The greatest kinds, c. 254a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-sophist-q7)
