Dialogue

 1 Phileb|     Republic he supposes the philosopher to proceed by regular steps,
 2 Phileb|     conviction as any modern philosopher that nature does not proceed
 3 Phileb|    to, knowledge. The modern philosopher would remark that the indefinite
 4 Phileb| pleasure, was not a physical philosopher; the atomists, who were
 5 Phileb|   that the numbers which the philosopher employs are always the same,
 6 Phileb|  fear of danger. Whereas the philosopher is seeking after wisdom
 7 Phileb| other pleasures, because the philosopher so estimates them; and he
 8 Phileb|   all of them seemed to some philosopher or other the truest and
 9 Phileb|     the spirit of an ancient philosopher he would have denied that
10 Phileb|     which is the thesis of a philosopher, not the watchword of an