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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other. - Plato Attribution: Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Glaucon, in The Republic, bk. 7, sect. 529. Socrates disagreed: “It seems to me that astronomy, as now handled by those who embark on philosophy, positively makes the soul look downwards.”

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