Dialogue

 1  Gorg|     generality they have lost in truth and distinctness. Metaphysical
 2  Gorg|          last convinced of their truth; at least, they seem to
 3  Gorg|         partially recognizes the truth of his words.~The Socrates
 4  Gorg|       the Phaedo, on the literal truth of the myth, but only on
 5  Gorg|         courts of justice, where truth depends upon numbers. But
 6  Gorg|       paid for them.~This is the truth, Socrates, as you will be
 7  Gorg|      both agree must be the very truth. Callicles has all the three
 8  Gorg| enjoyment of all things! For the truth is, Socrates, that luxury
 9  Gorg|    nevertheless is a figure of a truth which I want to make you
10  Gorg|          to this?~‘There is some truth in what you are saying,
11  Gorg|      that in some sense or other truth and right are alone to be
12  Gorg|        the duty of imparting the truth when discovered to others.
13  Gorg|        judgment according to the truth. Plato may be accused of
14  Gorg|   pleasure, knowledge and sense, truth and opinion, essence and
15  Gorg|      pursued without any view to truth, or the improvement of human
16  Gorg|         professing to have found truth, yet strong in the conviction
17  Gorg|        which is indeed a partial truth), is similar in both of
18  Gorg|           that he who speaks the truth to a multitude, regardless
19  Gorg|          now return to the ideal truth, and draw out in a simple
20  Gorg|         are slumbering ideals of truth and right, which may at
21  Gorg|       error or paradox as a half truth, seen first in the twilight
22  Gorg|         but also the half of the truth which is especially needed
23  Gorg|       wear the appearance of the truth; some of them are very ancient,
24  Gorg|    always obscuring our sense of truth and right. The sophistry
25  Gorg|        begin in the search after truth. On every side he is met
26  Gorg|          question of humanity or truth or right, even an ordinary
27  Gorg|    thrice removed from the ideal truth. And in a similar spirit
28  Gorg|    votary of pleasure and not of truth. In modern times we almost
29  Gorg|     poetry, as of religion, with truth, may still be possible.
30  Gorg|         brought out of disorder, truth out of error and falsehood.
31  Gorg|          the ultimate triumph of truth and right, and declares
32  Gorg|         in the cause of right or truth is often supposed to die
33  Gorg|      than he did in the cause of truth or of humanity. Neither,
34  Gorg|        description of a familiar truth. We have many of us known
35  Gorg|    company of some god, and seen truth in the form of the universal
36  Gorg|   consistency of the tale to its truth. The new order of the world
37  Gorg|      have from you, Gorgias, the truth about rhetoric: which you
38  Gorg|         pure love of knowing the truth, I am such a one, and I
39  Gorg|          likely to set forth the truth. And I would have you observe,
40  Gorg|          sake of discovering the truth, but from jealousy of you.
41  Gorg|    rhetorician need not know the truth about things; he has only
42  Gorg|         all, unless he knows the truth of these things first? What
43  Gorg| discussion, before we get at the truth of all this.~POLUS: And
44  Gorg|        believe that there is any truth in all this?) For will any
45  Gorg|       the nature of justice? The truth is, that there is great
46  Gorg|        Yes.~SOCRATES: To say the truth, Polus, it is not an art
47  Gorg|   SOCRATES: I am afraid that the truth may seem discourteous; and
48  Gorg|           And I should speak the truth; for I do not know how he
49  Gorg|       proof is of no value where truth is the aim; a man may often
50  Gorg|        inheritance, which is the truth. But I consider that nothing
51  Gorg|           for who can refute the truth?~POLUS: What do you mean?
52  Gorg|          one witness only of the truth of my words, and he is the
53  Gorg|       his mouth stopped. For the truth is, Socrates, that you,
54  Gorg|        engaged in the pursuit of truth, are appealing now to the
55  Gorg|         I have at last found the truth indeed. For I consider that
56  Gorg|        they will not tell me the truth, because they have not the
57  Gorg|        the attainment of perfect truth. Now there is no nobler
58  Gorg|    profess to be a votary of the truth, and the truth is this:—
59  Gorg|     votary of the truth, and the truth is this:—that luxury and
60  Gorg|       Socrates, is more like the truth.~SOCRATES: Well, I will
61  Gorg|         that the opposite is the truth?~CALLICLES: You do not convince
62  Gorg|    companion in the search after truth, if you say what is contrary
63  Gorg|       you think that I spoke the truth when I further said to Gorgias
64  Gorg|         for the discovery of the truth is a common good. And now
65  Gorg|          result of the order and truth and art which are imparted
66  Gorg|         seem to you to speak the truth.~CALLICLES: Granted then.~
67  Gorg|   SOCRATES: Well, but if so, the truth is as I have said already,
68  Gorg|         be despised; whereas the truth is, that sophistry is as
69  Gorg|      predicament? If he told the truth he could only say, ‘All
70  Gorg|          for I mean to speak the truth. Homer tells us (Il.), how
71  Gorg|     because he has lived without truth. Him Rhadamanthus beholds,
72  Gorg|       And Homer witnesses to the truth of this; for they are always
73  Gorg|        has lived in holiness and truth; he may have been a private
74  Gorg|   Callicles, am persuaded of the truth of these things, and I consider
75  Gorg|          desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as