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Quotation from Timaeus by Plato
“The soul was first made by him—the elder to rule the younger; not in the order in which our wayward fancy has led us to describe them, but the soul first and afterwards the body”
Timaeus, Cosmology of soul and body, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Timaeus gives soul priority over body in the ordering of the cosmos.
Citation: "The soul was first made by him—the elder to rule the younger; not in the order in which our wayward fancy has led us to describe them, but the soul first and afterwards the body" — Plato, Timaeus, Cosmology of soul and body, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id timaeus-q1)
Portrait: Timaios beginning. Codex Parisinus graecus 1807, Plato, Public domain.
