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Quotation from Theaetetus by Plato
“She said, that he was so eager to know what was going on in heaven, that he could not see what was before his feet”
Theaetetus, Digression, c. 174a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
The Thracian servant girl's jest at Thales, who fell into a well while watching the stars.
Citation: "She said, that he was so eager to know what was going on in heaven, that he could not see what was before his feet" — Plato, Theaetetus, Digression, c. 174a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-theaetetus-q6)
