Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|        away and leave the plain of truth. But if the soul has followed
 2 Phaedr|            her god and once beheld truth she is preserved from harm,
 3 Phaedr|   following, and always seeing the truth, is then for ever unharmed.
 4 Phaedr|         which has seen most of the truth passes into a philosopher
 5 Phaedr|         lover; that which has seen truth in the second degree, into
 6 Phaedr|           soul which has once seen truth and acquired some conception
 7 Phaedr|          wisdom and temperance and truth which she once gazed upon
 8 Phaedr|           is to know and speak the truth; as a Spartan proverb says, ‘
 9 Phaedr|         proverb says, ‘true art is truth’; whereas rhetoric is an
10 Phaedr|            is not wholly devoid of truth. Superior knowledge enables
11 Phaedr|          in rhetoric an element of truth is required. For if we do
12 Phaedr|          For if we do not know the truth, we can neither make the
13 Phaedr|            gradual departures from truth by which men are most easily
14 Phaedr|    probability to be stronger than truth. But we maintain that probability
15 Phaedr|      engendered by likeness of the truth which can only be attained
16 Phaedr|         that until a man knows the truth, and the manner of adapting
17 Phaedr|         the manner of adapting the truth to the natures of other
18 Phaedr|          principles of justice and truth when delivered by word of
19 Phaedr|          love or rhetoric. But the truth is that Plato subjects himself
20 Phaedr|    persuasion nor knowledge of the truth alone, but the art of persuasion
21 Phaedr|            founded on knowledge of truth and knowledge of character;
22 Phaedr|          Lysias there is a germ of truth, and this is further developed
23 Phaedr|           express an aspect of the truth. To understand him, we must
24 Phaedr|           justice and holiness and truth, but renewing them at the
25 Phaedr|           justice and holiness and truth, not according to the imperfect
26 Phaedr|            house of the goddess of truth.~The triple soul has had
27 Phaedr| imperfectly the vision of absolute truth. All her after existence,
28 Phaedr|    abstract; in that, all good and truth, all the hopes of this and
29 Phaedr|            hint at a psychological truth.~It is difficult to exhaust
30 Phaedr|    substance but the shadow of the truth which is in heaven. There
31 Phaedr|         without a knowledge of the truth; and secondly, as ignoring
32 Phaedr|         the expression of mind and truth with Art the composition
33 Phaedr|      speaking unconnected with the truth’? There is another text
34 Phaedr|            avowedly follow not the truth but the will of the many (
35 Phaedr|           have no knowledge of the truth, but only of what is likely
36 Phaedr|    praising God ‘without regard to truth and falsehood, attributing
37 Phaedr|          judgment’ and not for the truth or ‘God’s judgment.’ What
38 Phaedr|      whether we ‘care more for the truth of religion, or for the
39 Phaedr|         the country from which the truth comes’? or, whether the ‘
40 Phaedr|          there is also contained a truth; they may be compared with
41 Phaedr|          book, or the epistle, the truth embodied in a person, the
42 Phaedr|       careless he is of historical truth or probability. Who would
43 Phaedr|        seems to have glimpses of a truth beyond.~Two short passages,
44 Phaedr|         tested by any criterion of truth, or used to establish any
45 Phaedr|           or used to establish any truth; they add nothing to the
46 Phaedr|            relation to fact, or to truth of any kind. It is antipathetic
47 Phaedr|         the ways of simplicity and truth, and how ignorant of the
48 Phaedr|          say, or any conviction of truth. The age had no remembrance
49 Phaedr|      understand the whereabouts of truth, and therefore there may
50 Phaedr|         the courage to confess the truth, and not knowing how to
51 Phaedr|          was refreshing; having no truth or honesty in them, nevertheless
52 Phaedr|           is that word of mine—the truth is that thou didst not embark
53 Phaedr|           and try to ascertain the truth about them. The beginning
54 Phaedr|           I must dare to speak the truth, when truth is my theme.
55 Phaedr|           to speak the truth, when truth is my theme. There abides
56 Phaedr|          and once more gazing upon truth, is replenished and made
57 Phaedr|   eagerness to behold the plain of truth is that pasturage is found
58 Phaedr|        which attains any vision of truth in company with a god is
59 Phaedr|            and fails to behold the truth, and through some ill-hap
60 Phaedr|        soul which has seen most of truth shall come to the birth
61 Phaedr|        nature; that which has seen truth in the second degree shall
62 Phaedr|           never lost the vision of truth.) receive judgment when
63 Phaedr|           which has never seen the truth will not pass into the human
64 Phaedr|            of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which
65 Phaedr|       persuasion, and not from the truth.~SOCRATES: The words of
66 Phaedr|          speak in ignorance of the truth! Whatever my advice may
67 Phaedr|          told him to arrive at the truth first, and then come to
68 Phaedr|         that mere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art
69 Phaedr|         which is divorced from the truth.~PHAEDRUS: And what are
70 Phaedr|         the gradual departure from truth into the opposite of truth
71 Phaedr|         truth into the opposite of truth which is effected by the
72 Phaedr|          who being ignorant of the truth aims at appearances, will
73 Phaedr|          the speaker who knows the truth may, without any serious
74 Phaedr|         probability is superior to truth, and who by force of argument
75 Phaedr|       SOCRATES: Then consider what truth as well as Hippocrates says
76 Phaedr|         rhetorician has no need of truth—for that in courts of law
77 Phaedr|       literally care nothing about truth, but only about conviction:
78 Phaedr|            and say good-bye to the truth. And the observance of this
79 Phaedr|        many by the likeness of the truth, and we had just been affirming
80 Phaedr|     affirming that he who knew the truth would always know best how
81 Phaedr|            the resemblances of the truth. If he has anything else
82 Phaedr|       although if we had found the truth ourselves, do you think
83 Phaedr|            give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance
84 Phaedr|          but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of
85 Phaedr|      deemed that if they heard the truth even from ‘oak or rock,’
86 Phaedr|           themselves nor teach the truth adequately to others?~PHAEDRUS:
87 Phaedr|    SOCRATES: Until a man knows the truth of the several particulars
88 Phaedr|        from the reality, cannot in truth be otherwise than disgraceful
89 Phaedr|          based on knowledge of the truth, and they can defend or