Dialogue

 1 Phileb|         perfect life. First, we admit the pure pleasures and the
 2 Phileb|      words, we are compelled to admit that two contradictory statements
 3 Phileb|         pains. We may, perhaps, admit, though even this is not
 4 Phileb|    abstract nature;—although we admit of course what Plato seems
 5 Phileb|        He is saying in effect: ‘Admit, if you please, that rhetoric
 6 Phileb|         neither? For even if we admit, with the wise man whom
 7 Phileb|       philosophers who will not admit a third state. Their instinctive
 8 Phileb|   account. At the same time, we admit that the latter pleasures
 9 Phileb|         of purity and truth; to admit them all indiscriminately
10 Phileb|       to the pleasures; shall I admit them? ‘Admit first of all
11 Phileb| pleasures; shall I admit them? ‘Admit first of all the pure pleasures;
12 Phileb|          agreed to discard’. We admit that Utility is coextensive
13 Phileb|     although the first does not admit of the same ocular proof
14 Phileb| applications of it. Must we not admit that a notion so uncertain
15 Phileb|      above their practice; they admit premises which, if carried
16 Phileb|       things as appear to us to admit of more or less, or are
17 Phileb|         all things which do not admit of more or less, but admit
18 Phileb|      admit of more or less, but admit their opposites, that is
19 Phileb|         And further, even if we admit the existence of qualities
20 Phileb|     That pleasure and pain both admit of more and less, and that
21 Phileb|     understand you.~SOCRATES: I admit, Protarchus, that there
22 Phileb|      grain of intelligence will admit that the knowledge which