Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets. -- Kilgore Trout (Philip J. Farmer) "Venus on the Half Shell"

Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia

because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers

couldn't compete successfully with poets.

-- Kilgore Trout (Philip J. Farmer) "Venus on the Half

Shell"

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