Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|          will vanish away, let us ask ourselves what is that which
 2 Phaedo|         of the soul. He will only ask for a further admission:—
 3 Phaedo|          a living belief. We must ask ourselves afresh why we
 4 Phaedo|           the soul, we must still ask the question of Socrates, ‘
 5 Phaedo|  immortality of the soul, we must ask further what we mean by
 6 Phaedo|   thousand years after death, and ask not what will be our employment
 7 Phaedo|      uttered by him we forbear to ask; for no answer can be given
 8 Phaedo|          poet —he will be sure to ask it again, and therefore
 9 Phaedo|     incredulous, Simmias, I would ask you whether you may not
10 Phaedo|           recollection? I mean to ask, Whether a person who, having
11 Phaedo| dialectical process, both when we ask and when we answer questions.
12 Phaedo|       Must we not, said Socrates, ask ourselves what that is which,
13 Phaedo|         another way; she will not ask philosophy to release her
14 Phaedo|      which neither of us liked to ask, fearing that our importunity
15 Phaedo|          objection, but speak and ask anything which you like,
16 Phaedo|        period of time? Now I will ask you to consider whether
17 Phaedo|           And then he proceeds to ask of some one who is incredulous,
18 Phaedo|      speaking, I was beginning to ask myself the same question:
19 Phaedo|         the argument. And I would ask you to be thinking of the
20 Phaedo|       that I would then go on and ask him about the sun and moon
21 Phaedo|     replied.~Yet once more let me ask you to consider the question
22 Phaedo|            that is what I mean to ask—whether numbers such as
23 Phaedo|           in the words in which I ask it: let me have not the
24 Phaedo|          said: but I may and must ask the gods to prosper my journey