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Quotation from The Symposium by Plato
“He who has been instructed thus far in the things of love, and who has learned to see the beautiful in due order and succession, when he comes toward the end will suddenly perceive a nature of wondrous beauty”
The Symposium, Diotima's speech, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Diotima describes the ascent from particular loves toward the vision of beauty itself.
Citation: "He who has been instructed thus far in the things of love, and who has learned to see the beautiful in due order and succession, when he comes toward the end will suddenly perceive a nature of wondrous beauty" — Plato, The Symposium, Diotima's speech, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id the-symposium-q1)
