Dialogue

 1 Phileb|     Phaedrus he conveys the same truth in a figure, when he speaks
 2 Phileb|       perhaps, more metaphysical truth more obscurely expressed
 3 Phileb|       goodness—beauty, symmetry, truth. These are clearly more
 4 Phileb|    dividing more and more; every truth is at first the enemy of
 5 Phileb|         the enemy of every other truth. Yet without this division
 6 Phileb|         division there can be no truth; nor any complete truth
 7 Phileb|          truth; nor any complete truth without the reunion of the
 8 Phileb|          divided elements of the truth. Without entering further
 9 Phileb|        and empty vessel. But the truth is rather, that while the
10 Phileb|      abstraction the greater the truth, and he is always tending
11 Phileb|         reason seeking to attain truth by the aid of dialectic;
12 Phileb| doctrines, and seeking to find a truth beyond either Being or number;
13 Phileb|       Eristics as destructive of truth, as he had formerly fought
14 Phileb|     either, but to the degree of truth which they attain—here Gorgias
15 Phileb|  sensible world. But the highest truth is that which is eternal
16 Phileb|      have the most of purity and truth; to admit them all indiscriminately
17 Phileb|        virtue. But still we want truth? That is now added; and
18 Phileb|         are three chief elements—truth, symmetry, and beauty. These
19 Phileb|         has the greater share of truth? Surely wisdom; for pleasure
20 Phileb|        some pleasures partake of truth and Being?’ To these ancient
21 Phileb|          all his life long for a truth which will hereafter be
22 Phileb|           what appears to be the truth about the origin of our
23 Phileb|    desire of good, some sense of truth, some fear of the law. Of
24 Phileb|             thou shalt speak the truth,’ ‘thou shalt love thy parents,’ ‘
25 Phileb|      necessity of some degree of truth and justice in a social
26 Phileb|         one of them is the whole truth. But to decide how far our
27 Phileb|   acknowledges a universal good, truth, right; which is capable
28 Phileb|         limitations to which his truth is subjected; he does not
29 Phileb|           or how that which is a truth to him is a truism to the
30 Phileb|         a valuable aspect of the truth. The systems of all philosophers
31 Phileb|          on the verge of a great truth, we have gained only a truism.~
32 Phileb|          morality. Words such as truth, justice, honesty, virtue,
33 Phileb|       like him stand fast in the truth. To promote their happiness
34 Phileb|          certain aspect of moral truth. None of them are, or indeed
35 Phileb|   attracted by one aspect of the truth, some by another. The firm
36 Phileb|          relief some part of the truth which would have been obscure
37 Phileb|          we should view the same truth under more than one aspect.~
38 Phileb|    posterity with aspects of the truth and with instruments of
39 Phileb|          but for the sake of the truth: neither will the soldier
40 Phileb|           justice, love, wisdom, truth; these are to God, in whom
41 Phileb|        with our highest ideas of truth and right there can never
42 Phileb|        and faculty of loving the truth, and of doing all things
43 Phileb|       things for the sake of the truth’: or, again, the singular
44 Phileb|      field.~SOCRATES: Surely the truth about these matters ought,
45 Phileb|        us to be fighting for the truth.~PROTARCHUS: Certainly we
46 Phileb| excellent way of arriving at the truth? If there is, we hope that
47 Phileb|        seems to be very near the truth, Socrates. Happy would the
48 Phileb|        certainly has the look of truth, Socrates; but these subjects,
49 Phileb|       what you say has a general truth.~SOCRATES: Here then is
50 Phileb|        Shall we enquire into the truth of your opinion?~PROTARCHUS:
51 Phileb|      mean that opinion admits of truth and falsehood, and hence
52 Phileb|          is the very opposite of truth; for no one would call pleasures
53 Phileb|         diviners, who divine the truth, not by rules of art, but
54 Phileb|          may be reckoned, and in truth is, ridiculous.~PROTARCHUS:
55 Phileb|        acknowledged as a general truth that the body without the
56 Phileb|          do these terms stand to truth?~PROTARCHUS: Why do you
57 Phileb|         superior in accuracy and truth.~SOCRATES: Then this is
58 Phileb|       and the greatest amount of truth, however humble and little
59 Phileb|          particular of essential truth; as in the comparison of
60 Phileb|       was said to be superior in truth to a great mass which is
61 Phileb|       the soul has of loving the truth, and of doing all things
62 Phileb|        has a firmer grasp of the truth than this.~SOCRATES: Do
63 Phileb|     judged by the strict rule of truth ever become certain?~PROTARCHUS:
64 Phileb|        do not attain the highest truth?~PROTARCHUS: I should imagine
65 Phileb|        judged by the standard of truth, the latter, as we thought,
66 Phileb|     class which have the most of truth, will not the union suffice
67 Phileb|        is that?~SOCRATES: Unless truth enter into the composition,
68 Phileb|      SOCRATES: Also we said that truth was to form an element in
69 Phileb|          prey; Beauty, Symmetry, Truth are the three, and these
70 Phileb|          are speaking of beauty, truth, and measure?~SOCRATES:
71 Phileb|  SOCRATES: Yes, Protarchus, take truth first, and, after passing
72 Phileb|          passing in review mind, truth, pleasure, pause awhile
73 Phileb|          or mind is more akin to truth.~PROTARCHUS: There is no
74 Phileb|       mind is either the same as truth, or the most like truth,
75 Phileb|          truth, or the most like truth, and the truest.~SOCRATES:
76 Phileb|   Socrates, we tell you that the truth of what you have been saying