Miscellanies 1.19.93

Does he not seem to you, from the Hebrew Scriptures, to make clear the hope of the righteous after death, which belongs to faith? And in the Demodocus, if the work is really Plato's, he says that to philosophize is not this, to live bent over the arts or learning many things, but something else, since I at least thought that a reproach. For he knew, I think, that “much learning does not teach one to have sense,” according to Heraclitus. And in the fifth book of the Republic he says: “Shall we call all these, then, and others learned in such things, and those of the petty arts, philosophers? Not at all, I said, but like philosophers. And whom do you call the true ones? he said. Those, I said, who love to behold the truth.” For philosophy is not in geometry, which has postulates and hypotheses, nor in music, which is a matter of guesswork, nor in astronomy, stuffed with physical, fluctuating, and probable arguments, but it is knowledge of the good itself and of the truth, those other things being different from the good, but like roads toward the good. So he himself does not grant that encyclical education contributes to the good itself, but that it works together to rouse the soul and to exercise it together toward intelligible things.