Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|         Socrates as yet does not know himself; and why should
 2 Phaedr|        and why should he care to know about unearthly monsters?
 3 Phaedr|      rule of good speaking is to know and speak the truth; as
 4 Phaedr|       required. For if we do not know the truth, we can neither
 5 Phaedr|      others in that; and he must know the times and the seasons
 6 Phaedr|        is the art of rhetoric.~I know that there are some professors
 7 Phaedr|   opinions, waiting in wonder to know, and working with reverence
 8 Phaedr|       SOCRATES: I believe that I know Phaedrus about as well as
 9 Phaedr|      Phaedrus about as well as I know myself, and I am very sure
10 Phaedr|       PHAEDRUS: I should like to know, Socrates, whether the place
11 Phaedr|       tell you why? I must first know myself, as the Delphian
12 Phaedr|          I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about
13 Phaedr|     Begin.~PHAEDRUS: Listen. You know how matters stand with me;
14 Phaedr|        heart;—he wants others to know that his labour has not
15 Phaedr|       reason why, because people know that talking to another
16 Phaedr|         who am well aware that I know nothing, and therefore I
17 Phaedr|        you as you said to me, ‘I know Socrates as well as I know
18 Phaedr|       know Socrates as well as I know myself, and he was wanting
19 Phaedr|        pretences; for, indeed, I know the word that is irresistible.~
20 Phaedr|       shall feel ashamed and not know what to say.~PHAEDRUS: Only
21 Phaedr|       the same way; a man should know what he is advising about,
22 Phaedr|         people imagine that they know about the nature of things,
23 Phaedr|          things, when they don’t know about them, and, not having
24 Phaedr|     because they think that they know, they end, as might be expected,
25 Phaedr|         love is a desire, and we know also that non-lovers desire
26 Phaedr|   Consider this, fair youth, and know that in the friendship of
27 Phaedr|          your service.~SOCRATES: Know then, fair youth, that the
28 Phaedr|        SOCRATES: Why, do you not know that when a politician writes,
29 Phaedr|          the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter
30 Phaedr|        be deceived, must exactly know the real likenesses and
31 Phaedr|     everything; or he will never know either how to make the gradual
32 Phaedr|           speech.~PHAEDRUS: ‘You know how matters stand with me,
33 Phaedr|      exact words.~PHAEDRUS: ‘You know how matters stand with me,
34 Phaedr|       solemn strain.~PHAEDRUS: I know that I had great pleasure
35 Phaedr|        not. And I should like to know what name you would give
36 Phaedr|        has. But I should like to know whether you have the same
37 Phaedr|  Acumenus, and to say to him: ‘I know how to apply drugs which
38 Phaedr|         he were to reply: ‘No; I know nothing of all that; I expect
39 Phaedr|         harmonist must certainly know this, and yet he may understand
40 Phaedr|          knowledge, for you only know the preliminaries of harmony
41 Phaedr|         you. But I still want to know where and how the true art
42 Phaedr|   Anaxagoras whom he happened to know. He was thus imbued with
43 Phaedr|        do you think that you can know the nature of the soul intelligently
44 Phaedr|    nature of the soul which they know quite well. Nor, until they
45 Phaedr|      knew the truth would always know best how to discover the
46 Phaedr|  PHAEDRUS: Yes.~SOCRATES: Do you know how you can speak or act
47 Phaedr|    whether true or not they only know; although if we had found
48 Phaedr|    omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome
49 Phaedr| intelligence, but if you want to know anything and put a question
50 Phaedr|         not understand them, and know not to whom they should
51 Phaedr|          men may say. For not to know the nature of justice and
52 Phaedr|          reminiscence of what we know, and that only in principles