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Quotation from Statesman by Plato
“the pilot of the universe let the helm go, and retired to his place of view; and then Fate and innate desire reversed the motion of the world.”
Statesman, Myth of the reversed cosmos (272e), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
The turning point of the myth, when the god releases the universe and it begins to revolve in the opposite direction under its own power.
Citation: "the pilot of the universe let the helm go, and retired to his place of view; and then Fate and innate desire reversed the motion of the world." — Plato, Statesman, Myth of the reversed cosmos (272e), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-statesman-q1)
