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'Platonic aesthetics, remember! as such, are ever in close connexion with Plato's ethics. It is life itself, action and character, he proposes to colour; to get something of that irrepressible conscience of art, that spirit of control, into the general course of life, above all into its energetic or impassioned acts.'

'If Socrates... seemed to become the teacher of another, it was but by thinking allowed for a few moments over his own lesson, or leaning upon that other as he went along that difficult way which each one must really prosecute for himself.'

'[Plato] seems to have no inclination for the responsibilities of definite theory; for a system such as that of the Neo-Platonists for instance... who, in a kind of prosaic and cold-blooded transcendentalism, developed as definite philosophic dogma... what in Plato is to the last rather poetry than metaphysical reasoning — the irrepressible because almost unconscious poetry.'