Dialogue

 1 Phileb|          source of perplexity. Our ignorance of the opinions which Plato
 2 Phileb|          evil, with pleasure, with ignorance, and which in the scale
 3 Phileb|          virtue is knowledge, vice ignorance. He will allow of no distinction
 4 Phileb|          others with falsehood and ignorance. Let us endeavour to analyze
 5 Phileb| misfortunes of others? ‘True.’ And ignorance is a misfortune? ‘Certainly.’
 6 Phileb|        Certainly.’ And one form of ignorance is self-conceit—a man may
 7 Phileb|        others, and laughs at their ignorance of themselves. But Plato
 8 Phileb|        only make allowance for our ignorance.~There are several passages
 9 Phileb|          of us a state of infinite ignorance; and he who never looks
10 Phileb|           will, but either through ignorance or from some unhappy necessity.~
11 Phileb|      associated with falsehood and ignorance?~PROTARCHUS: There must
12 Phileb|           Certainly.~SOCRATES: And ignorance, and what is termed clownishness,
13 Phileb|            not three ways in which ignorance of self may be shown?~PROTARCHUS:
14 Phileb|         strong and formidable; for ignorance in the powerul is hateful
15 Phileb|          in fiction, but powerless ignorance may be reckoned, and in
16 Phileb|      SOCRATES: Did we not say that ignorance was always an evil?~PROTARCHUS:
17 Phileb|            we not acknowledge this ignorance of theirs to be a misfortune?~