Dialogue

 1 Craty|          giver of them must have known something about the doctrine
 2 Craty|         allow that things may be known without names; for names,
 3 Craty|    mouths? And they could not be known by any one if they are always
 4 Craty|       never existed, or is never known to have existed, except
 5 Craty|        form or forms of language known to us, or to be reasonably
 6 Craty|      that the inward can only be known through the outward. Neither
 7 Craty|        causes of them are seldom known to us.~Language, like the
 8 Craty|     unpleasing to us. The better known words, even if their meaning
 9 Craty|  occasion: when they are already known to the hearer or reader,
10 Craty|          commonly or universally known. A word or two may be sufficient
11 Craty|   barbarians, were the only Gods known to the aboriginal Hellenes.
12 Craty|         that he must surely have known; or else, as I was saying,
13 Craty|         CRATYLUS: They must have known, Socrates.~SOCRATES: Why,
14 Craty|         who gave names must have known the things which he named;
15 Craty|         if things are only to be known through names, how can we
16 Craty| therefore before they could have known them?~CRATYLUS: I believe,
17 Craty|       suppose that things may be known without names?~CRATYLUS:
18 Craty|    SOCRATES: Nor yet can they be known by any one; for at the moment
19 Craty|        to know and nothing to be known: but if that which knows
20 Craty|          knows and that which is known exists ever, and the beautiful