Date: c. 501 B.C.
"A dry gleam of light is the wisest and best soul."
preview | full record— Heraklitus (fl. 504-1 BCE)
Date: 360 B.C.
"For it does not admit of exposition like other branches of knowledge; but after much converse about the matter itself and a life lived together, suddenly a light, as it were, is kindled in one soul by a flame that leaps to it from another, and thereafter sustains itself."
preview | full record— Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)