Dialogue

 1 Phileb|          between the two heads of measure and symmetry; and though
 2 Phileb| carpentering, which have an exact measure, are to be regarded as higher
 3 Phileb|       good. First in the scale is measure; the second place is assigned
 4 Phileb|           This is the negative of measure or limit; the unthinkable,
 5 Phileb|     exhibited under the aspect of measure or symmetry, becomes beauty.
 6 Phileb|          the supreme principle of measure.~b. Again, to us there is
 7 Phileb|           a higher law; the final measure which is the highest expression
 8 Phileb|  therefore be reduced to rule and measure. And if we adopt the test
 9 Phileb|       weight is given to ideas of measure and number, as the sole
10 Phileb|    elements, which have no common measure, and which cannot be excluded
11 Phileb|         is determined by rule and measure. Of the more empirical arts,
12 Phileb|       capable of being reduced to measure.~The theoretical element
13 Phileb|          scale of goods he places measure, in which he finds the eternal
14 Phileb|        one another. For the word ‘measure’ he now substitutes the
15 Phileb|           if intending to express measure conceived as relation. He
16 Phileb|          if limited or reduced to measure by number and quantity.
17 Phileb|      unmixed pleasures we ascribe measure, whereas all others belong
18 Phileb|          an element of number and measure in them. In music, for example,
19 Phileb|           application of rule and measure. Of the creative arts, then,
20 Phileb|          false rule and the false measure? That we must, if we are
21 Phileb|         in the scale of good, but measure, and eternal harmony.~Second
22 Phileb|        various circumstances, the measure of a man’s happiness may
23 Phileb|       great subtlety. The mean or measure is now made the first principle
24 Phileb|           saying, if quantity and measure did not disappear, but were
25 Phileb|         other ratio of number and measure—all these may, I think,
26 Phileb|       true being, effected by the measure which the limit introduces.~
27 Phileb|       which are in excess have no measure, but that those which are
28 Phileb|      which are not in excess have measure; the great, the excessive,
29 Phileb|      refer to the class which has measure.~PROTARCHUS: Quite right,
30 Phileb|     sounds are harmonized, not by measure, but by skilful conjecture;
31 Phileb|          art which uses the false measure and the false circle?~PROTARCHUS:
32 Phileb|         He knows that any want of measure and symmetry in any mixture
33 Phileb|      region of the beautiful; for measure and symmetry are beauty
34 Phileb|    speaking of beauty, truth, and measure?~SOCRATES: Yes, Protarchus,
35 Phileb|            Shall we next consider measure, in like manner, and ask
36 Phileb|           more in conformity with measure than mind and knowledge.~
37 Phileb|           the second, but that in measure, and the mean, and the suitable,