Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|       himself, or rather some power residing within him, could
 2 Phaedr|   enquire into the nature and power of love. For this is a necessary
 3 Phaedr|        And this is the master power of love.~Here Socrates fancies
 4 Phaedr|   sacred writer says that the power which thus works in him
 5 Phaedr|    others, rhetoric has great power in public assemblies. This
 6 Phaedr|       public assemblies. This power, however, is not given by
 7 Phaedr|     of anything else; natural power must be aided by art. But
 8 Phaedr|    living creature. It has no power of adaptation, but uses
 9 Phaedr|     than reason; the creative power of imagination is wanting.~‘’
10 Phaedr|      soul as the great motive power and the triple soul which
11 Phaedr|   able to imagine the intense power which abstract ideas exercised
12 Phaedr|       of the soul as a motive power, in his reminiscence of
13 Phaedr|     soul itself as the motive power and reason of the universe.~
14 Phaedr|     an indication of the real power exercised by the passion
15 Phaedr|       knowledge with creative power. No attainments will provide
16 Phaedr|     higher philosophy and the power of psychological analysis,
17 Phaedr|       age wanting in original power.~Turning from literature
18 Phaedr|       art of dialectic as the power of dividing a whole into
19 Phaedr|       attainment of wealth or power; but Plato finds nothing
20 Phaedr|  little mind or real creative power? Why did a thousand years
21 Phaedr|  sense or originality, or any power of arousing the interest
22 Phaedr|      Why did words lose their power of expression? Why were
23 Phaedr|   remembrance of the past, no power of understanding what other
24 Phaedr|     literature that it had no power of understanding or of valuing
25 Phaedr|       defining the nature and power of love, and then, keeping
26 Phaedr|    drags us to pleasure, that power of misrule is called excess.
27 Phaedr|    but is really moved by her power; and this composition of
28 Phaedr|    the king or orator has the power, as Lycurgus or Solon or
29 Phaedr|      has rhetoric the greater power?~PHAEDRUS: Clearly, in the
30 Phaedr|  light of day, which is: What power has this art of rhetoric,
31 Phaedr|        PHAEDRUS: A very great power in public meetings.~SOCRATES:
32 Phaedr|       If you have the natural power and add to it knowledge
33 Phaedr|  simple, then to enquire what power it has of acting or being
34 Phaedr|     all of them, what is that power of acting or being acted
35 Phaedr| generally, as far as is in my power, how a man ought to proceed
36 Phaedr|    within the limits of human power. And this skill he will
37 Phaedr|        and having far greater power—a son of the same family,