For the creative soul creates not children, but conceptions of wisdom and virtue, such as poets and other creators have invented.
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Author Plato
Source Symposium
Topic wisdom virtue
Date
Language English
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Note Translated by Benjamin Jowett
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“There is no sameness of existence, but the new mortality is always taking the place of the old. This is the reason why parents love their children—for the sake of immortality; and this is why men love the immortality of fame. For the creative soul creates not children, but conceptions of wisdom and virtue, such as poets and other creators have invented. And the noblest creations of all are those of legislators, in honour of whom temples have been raised. Who would not sooner have these children of the mind than the ordinary human ones? (Compare Bacon's Essays, 8:—'Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men;” source