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“It is not true that faith, as a Victorian poet said, "puts out the eye of light"; without it there would be no light at all, not even the "dry light" of the sciences themselves: nothing venture, nothing have.”
― A.E. Taylor, Does God Exist?

“The soul is itself the very principle of life, and produces life everywhere where it is present. Life is thus an essential attribute of soul. Consequently death, the opposite of life, can never be truly predicated of that which is the principle of life itself. A dead soul would be a contradiction in terms. The soul, therefore, is deathless, and it is an easy inference that what can survive death is absolutely indestructible." - A.E. Taylor, On Plato's Phaedo”
― A.E. Taylor

“Plato has done his best to make it quite clear that he took no great interest in "system making." To him philosophy meant no compact body of "results" to be learned, but a life spent in the active personal pursuit of truth and goodness by the light of one or two great passionate convictions.”
― A.E. Taylor, Plato: The Man and His Work

“Plato has done his best to make it quite clear that he took no great interest in "system making." To him philosophy meant no compact body of "results" to be learned, but a life spent in the active personal pursuit of truth and goodness by the light one or two great passionate convictions.”
― A.E. Taylor, Plato: The Man and His Work