Dialogue

 1 Craty|      Hermogenes, who is ready to believe anything that he is told,
 2 Craty|     unsavoury’ similes—he cannot believe that the world is like ‘
 3 Craty|         O, my dear Hermogenes, I believe that there was a power of
 4 Craty|         there were any names? ‘I believe, Socrates, that some power
 5 Craty|      state of motion and flux, I believe that they were mistaken;
 6 Craty|        unreal thing, nor will he believe that everything is in a
 7 Craty|   talking nonsense; and indeed I believe that I myself did not know
 8 Craty|         I think otherwise, and I believe you to be on the right track.~
 9 Craty|     letters names.~HERMOGENES: I believe you are right.~SOCRATES:
10 Craty|           Yes, Hermogenes, and I believe that I caught the inspiration
11 Craty|         SOCRATES: And do you not believe with Anaxagoras, that mind
12 Craty|        in which Homer, and, as I believe, Hesiod also, tells of~‘
13 Craty|         to explain, for I do not believe that any single name could
14 Craty|         head only this moment: I believe that the primeval givers
15 Craty|        in the hope of making you believe in the originality of the
16 Craty|       any further.~HERMOGENES: I believe you to be in the right.~
17 Craty|      That, Socrates, I can quite believe.~SOCRATES: Well, but do
18 Craty|       CRATYLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES: I believe you may be right, but I
19 Craty|    CRATYLUS: How so?~SOCRATES: I believe that what you say may be
20 Craty|       view to correctness; for I believe that if we could always,
21 Craty|          do you say?~CRATYLUS: I believe that to be both the only
22 Craty|      other.~SOCRATES: But do you believe that in the discovery of
23 Craty| discovery.~CRATYLUS: I certainly believe that the methods of enquiry
24 Craty|          the best. And any one I believe who would take the trouble
25 Craty|          known them?~CRATYLUS: I believe, Socrates, the true account
26 Craty|        of unreality; he will not believe that all things leak like