timaeus balm
…the gods, deeming the front part of man to be more honorable and more fit to command than the hinder part, made us to move mostly in a forward direction.
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(rereading for a metaphysics class i’m auditing, finding it a very enjoyable, kindling 2007 endeavor)
God invented and gave us sight to the end that we might behold the courses of intelligence in the heaven, and apply them to the courses of our own intelligence which are akin to them, the unperturbed to the perturbed, and that we, learning them and partaking of the natural truth of reason, might imitate the absolutely unerring courses of God and regulate our own vagaries.