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“And you can see these and touch them and perceive them by the other senses, whereas the things which are always the same can be grasped only by the reason, and are invisible and not to be seen?”“Certainly,” said he, “that is true.”“Now,” said he, “shall we assume two kinds of existences, one visible, the other invisible?”“Let us assume them,” said Cebes.“And that the invisible is always the same and the visible constantly changing?”“Let us assume that also,” said he.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 1 translated by Harold North Fowler; Introduction by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1966.
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