Plato, Philebus, section 62c

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[62c] was full of guesswork and imitation and lacked purity?

Protarchus
Yes, I think we must, if our life is to be life at all.

Socrates
Shall I, then, like a doorkeeper who is pushed and hustled by a mob, give up, open the door, and let all the kinds of knowledge stream in, the impure mingling with the pure?

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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