Then I heard someone reading out of a book of Anaxagoras, as he told us, and saying that Mind was the disposer and cause of all: and I was delighted with this notion of the (first) cause,—indeed it gave me a sort of comfort to think that Mind was the cause of all things, and I said to myself, If this be so,—if Mind is the orderer, it will have all in order, and put every single thing in the place that is best for it. And I argued that if anyone desired to find out the cause of the generation or existence of anything, he must find out what state of being or doing or suffering was best for that thing, and therefore a man had only to consider the best for himself and others and then he would also know the worse, since the same science comprehended both.
- Plato
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