At this point I have just recollected the following. In the end of the Timoeus he says: "You must necessarily assimilate that which perceives to that which is perceived, according to its original nature; and it is by so assimilating it that you attain to the end of the highest life proposed by the gods to men, for the present or the future time." For those have equal power with these. He, who seeks, will not stop till he find; and having found, he will wonder; and wondering, he will reign; and reigning, he will rest. And what? Were not also those expressions of Thales derived from these? The fact that God is glorified for ever, and that He is expressly called by us the Searcher of hearts, he interprets. For Thales being asked, What is the divinity? said, What has neither beginning nor end. And on another asking, "If a man could elude the knowledge of the Divine Being while doing aught?" said, "How could he who cannot do so while thinking?"

Timaeus: must necessarily and inevitably think thoughts that are immortal and divine, if so be that he lays hold on truth, and in so far as it is...

Timaeus: are the intellections and revolutions of the Universe. These each one of us should follow, rectifying the revolutions within our head, which...

Timaeus: and to seek the necessary for the sake of the divine, reckoning that without the former it is impossible to discern by themselves alone the...

Timaeus: and every time they happen upon any external object, whether it be of the class of the Same or of the Other, they proclaim it to be the same...

Timaeus: the same account must be given. It must be called always by the same name; for from its own proper quality it never departs at all for while...

Timaeus: that what is become is become, and what is becoming is becoming, and what is about to become is about to become, and what is non-existent...

Timaeus: constructed Becoming and the All. He was good, and in him that is good no envy ariseth ever concerning anything; and being devoid of envy He...

Timaeus: the Form of the Most Good; but by the most of men they are supposed to be not auxiliary but primary causes of all things—cooling and...

Timaeus: send upon men unable to calculate alarming portents of the things which shall come to pass hereafter,—to describe all this without an...

Timaeus: Such, then, being the necessary nature of all these things, the Artificer of the most fair and good took them over at that time amongst...

Timaeus: For, in truth, this Cosmos in its origin was generated as a compound, from the combination of Necessity and Reason. And inasmuch as Reason...

Timaeus: and from what it is different, and in what relation, where and how and when, it comes about that each thing exists and is acted upon by...

Timaeus: having come into existence by the agency of the best of things intelligible and ever-existing as the best of things generated. Inasmuch,...

Timaeus: into one another in all these ways, as they undergo transformation by the loss or by the gain of reason and unreason. And now at length we...

Timaeus: from which we arrived hither. In this way we shall endeavor now to supplement our story with a conclusion and a crown in harmony with what...

Timaeus: Was it after that which is self-identical and uniform, or after that which has come into existence; Now if so be that this Cosmos is...

Timaeus: he shall be changed every time, according to the nature of his wickedness, into some bestial form after the similitude of his own nature;...

Timaeus: Nature thereof. Now in all other respects this World had already, with the birth of Time, been wrought in the similitude of that whereunto...

Timaeus: by the man who has even a grain of sense, to the class of syllables. For the present, however, let our procedure be as follows. We shall not...

Timaeus: keeps upright our whole body. Whoso, then, indulges in lusts or in contentions and devotes himself overmuch thereto must of necessity be...