“Those who have forgotten where the road leads.” “They are at odds with what is all around them”—the all-directing logos. And “they find alien what they meet with every day.” Book IV

The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works. Book VI

In the course of my life I have often had intimations in dreams "that I should make music." The same dream came to me sometimes in one form, and sometimes in another, but always saying the same or nearly the same words: Make and cultivate music, said the dream. And hitherto I imagined that this was only intended to exhort and encourage me in the study of philosophy, which has always been the pursuit of my life, and is the noblest and best of music. The Trials Of Socrates

“Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him?” Republic