Plato, Sophist, section 249a

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[249a] but awful and holy, devoid of mind, is fixed and immovable?

Theaetetus
That would be a shocking admission to make, Stranger.

Stranger
But shall we say that it has mind, but not life?

Theaetetus
How can we?

Stranger
But do we say that both of these exist in it, and yet go on to say that it does not possess them in a soul?

Theaetetus
But how else can it possess them?

Stranger
Then shall we say that it has mind and life and soul, but, although endowed with soul, is absolutely immovable?

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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