Dialogue

 1 Phileb|      word ‘mixed,’ for the mixed life, the mixed class of elements,
 2 Phileb|          of relation to external life in the dialogue, or references
 3 Phileb|          the later period of his life and authorship. But in this,
 4 Phileb|     generally, that the combined life of pleasure and wisdom or
 5 Phileb|       composition of the perfect life. First, we admit the pure
 6 Phileb|          true type both of human life and of the order of nature.~
 7 Phileb|          that the continuance or life of things is quite as much
 8 Phileb|     illustration, is leading the life of an oyster. Hence (by
 9 Phileb|         to be necessary to human life, is depreciated. Music is
10 Phileb|       was not mitigated in later life; although both in the Statesman
11 Phileb|       and sufficient. But is the life of pleasure perfect and
12 Phileb|    anticipation? Is not this the life of an oyster? Or is the
13 Phileb|          of an oyster? Or is the life of mind sufficient, if devoid
14 Phileb|   element which makes this mixed life eligible more akin to mind
15 Phileb|           And yet there may be a life of mind, not human but divine,
16 Phileb| determine in which our conqueror life is to be placed: Clearly
17 Phileb|          to be no reason why the life of wisdom should not exist
18 Phileb|       the greater drama of human life. (There appears to be some
19 Phileb|       alternation to the equable life of pure thought? Here is
20 Phileb|          good not in the unmixed life, but in the mixed.~The cup
21 Phileb|          Yes, you must, if human life is to have any humanity.’
22 Phileb|      that the salvation of human life depends upon a right estimate
23 Phileb|          and is yearning all his life long for a truth which will
24 Phileb|         of another world; or the life and example of some great
25 Phileb|       fixed or set, and in after life are strengthened, or perhaps
26 Phileb|        thought to the world. The life of Christ has embodied a
27 Phileb|       true and only end of human life. To this all our desires
28 Phileb|          of happiness to another life, dropping the external circumstances
29 Phileb|        ready to contend to their life’s end.~And if we test this
30 Phileb|         unequal to the duties of life. Looking back on them now
31 Phileb|      politics, on law, on social life, has been upon the whole
32 Phileb|       certain.~The rule of human life is not dependent on the
33 Phileb|     which in all states of human life we call happiness? which
34 Phileb|        aggregate of the goods of life.~Again, while admitting
35 Phileb|        crime against property or life, and the omission of an
36 Phileb|       the view which men take of life, the more they lose sight
37 Phileb|       highest principle of human life. We may try them in this
38 Phileb|         to the belief in another life. Yet about these too we
39 Phileb|          health and the goods of life.~Fifthly, beauty and happiness,—
40 Phileb|       age, and the experience of life to widen and deepen. The
41 Phileb|          are we not? But if this life, which really has the power
42 Phileb|     pleasure than to wisdom, the life of pleasure may still have
43 Phileb|      have the advantage over the life of wisdom.~PROTARCHUS: True.~
44 Phileb|          suppose that the better life is more nearly allied to
45 Phileb|          Now let us part off the life of pleasure from the life
46 Phileb|        life of pleasure from the life of wisdom, and pass them
47 Phileb|        there be no wisdom in the life of pleasure, nor any pleasure
48 Phileb|          nor any pleasure in the life of wisdom, for if either
49 Phileb|     Protarchus, to live all your life long in the enjoyment of
50 Phileb|     would always throughout your life enjoy the greatest pleasures?~
51 Phileb|        future pleasure, and your life would be the life, not of
52 Phileb|       and your life would be the life, not of a man, but of an
53 Phileb|          SOCRATES: But is such a life eligible?~PROTARCHUS: I
54 Phileb|     spirits;—let us now take the life of mind and examine it in
55 Phileb|     PROTARCHUS: And what is this life of mind?~SOCRATES: I want
56 Phileb|    feelings?~PROTARCHUS: Neither life, Socrates, appears eligible
57 Phileb|       SOCRATES: Yes, that is the life which I mean.~PROTARCHUS:
58 Phileb|          was able to live such a life; and if any of us had chosen
59 Phileb|        mind as against the mixed life; but we must come to some
60 Phileb|        be the cause of the mixed life; and in that case although
61 Phileb|   element which makes this mixed life eligible and good, is more
62 Phileb|          and all the delights of life?~PROTARCHUS: Most true.~
63 Phileb|         remember, that the mixed life of pleasure and wisdom was
64 Phileb|         place and nature of this life and to what class it is
65 Phileb|         comprehend the conqueror life.~PROTARCHUS: Most true.~
66 Phileb|        we say, Philebus, of your life which is all sweetness;
67 Phileb|        that if a man chooses the life of wisdom, there is no reason
68 Phileb|   necessary to him who chose the life of thought and wisdom.~PROTARCHUS:
69 Phileb|          that there is a kind of life which consists in these
70 Phileb|  affections, and of what kind of life, are you speaking?~SOCRATES:
71 Phileb|         But if this be true, the life to which I was just now
72 Phileb|        appears.~PROTARCHUS: What life?~SOCRATES: The life which
73 Phileb|         What life?~SOCRATES: The life which we affirmed to be
74 Phileb|       can that neutral or middle life be rightly or reasonably
75 Phileb|       the greater stage of human life; and so in endless other
76 Phileb|          than that third sort of life, in which, as we were saying,
77 Phileb|          of enquiry in which his life is spent?~PROTARCHUS: True.~
78 Phileb|     assigning to each a distinct life, so that pleasure was wholly
79 Phileb|         good, not in the unmixed life but in the mixed.~PROTARCHUS:
80 Phileb|      which we are seeking in the life which is well mixed than
81 Phileb|          that you must, if human life is to be a life at all.~
82 Phileb|         if human life is to be a life at all.~SOCRATES: Well,
83 Phileb|           as an element of human life, than pleasure.~PROTARCHUS:
84 Phileb|    pleasures make up the good of life, and deem the lusts of animals