Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people who believe in nothing but what they can grasp in their hands, and who will not allow that action or generation or anything invisible can have real existence.
PlatoLord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.
PlatoBut of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?
PlatoLove is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.
Plato