Dialogue

  1 Repub|       master only, but of many. The truth is, Socrates, that these
  2 Repub|            what is it?-to speak the truth and to pay your debts-no
  3 Repub|           ought always to speak the truth to one who is in his condition. ~
  4 Repub|          then, I said, speaking the truth and paying your debts is
  5 Repub|             appears to me to be the truth. ~But ought the just to
  6 Repub|            our utmost to get at the truth? Nay, my good friend, we
  7 Repub|          what you are saying is the truth. Now we are both agreed
  8 Repub|            respective arts. But the truth is, that while the art of
  9 Repub|          That, as I believe, is the truth of the matter, and not what
 10 Repub|         discussion; but the end, in truth, proved to be only a beginning.
 11 Repub|          appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness,
 12 Repub|             is able to disprove the truth of my words, and who is
 13 Repub|             wanted to arrive at the truth, first, about the nature
 14 Repub|           but I quite recognize the truth of your remark. ~And surely
 15 Repub|             not wholly destitute of truth, are in the main fictitious;
 16 Repub| speaking-because we do not know the truth about ancient times, we
 17 Repub|         make falsehood as much like truth as we can, and so turn it
 18 Repub|            them is certain. ~Again, truth should be highly valued;
 19 Repub|          gymnasium not to speak the truth about his own bodily illnesses
 20 Repub|            contending. ~I grant the truth of your inference. ~That
 21 Repub|        whenever he is deprived of a truth. ~I understand, he said,
 22 Repub|             Is not to have lost the truth an evil, and to possess
 23 Repub|            evil, and to possess the truth a good? and you would agree
 24 Repub|          they are is to possess the truth? ~Yes, he replied; I agree
 25 Repub|             mankind are deprived of truth against their will. ~And
 26 Repub|            But if the latter be the truth, then the guardians and
 27 Repub|            telling them what is the truth: Silver and gold we neither
 28 Repub|         appearance, but in deed and truth, though she number not more
 29 Repub|            enemy who tells them the truth, which is simply that, unless
 30 Repub|        money, which may, with equal truth, be attributed to the Phoenicians
 31 Repub|           is a further proof of the truth of what you are saying.
 32 Repub|    instances will satisfy us of the truth of what I am saying. ~What
 33 Repub|             You have said the exact truth, Socrates. ~Very good; and
 34 Repub|             at which we may see the truth in the clearest manner with
 35 Repub|       talking about. To declare the truth about matters of high interest
 36 Repub|           but that I shall miss the truth where I have most need to
 37 Repub| pugnaciously insist upon the verbal truth, that different natures
 38 Repub|            he replied. ~That is the truth, I said. But if, at your
 39 Repub|           things, fall short of the truth? What do you say? ~I agree. ~
 40 Repub|             lovers of the vision of truth. ~That is also good, he
 41 Repub|              But those who love the truth in each thing are to be
 42 Repub|             to look at the absolute truth and to that original to
 43 Repub|          virtue, also know the very truth of each thing? ~There can
 44 Repub|              and they will love the truth. ~Yes, that may be safely
 45 Repub|            more akin to wisdom than truth? ~How can there be? ~Can
 46 Repub|             in him lies, desire all truth? ~Assuredly. ~But then again,
 47 Repub|   Undoubtedly. ~And do you consider truth to be akin to proportion
 48 Repub|             gracious, the friend of truth, justice, courage, temperance,
 49 Repub|           saying told a lie-but the truth is, that, when a man is
 50 Repub|            gentle and noble nature. Truth, as you will remember, was
 51 Repub|            having begotten mind and truth, he will have knowledge
 52 Repub|            lie? ~He will. ~And when truth is the captain, we cannot
 53 Repub|         mean about them. ~Grasp the truth as a whole, I said, and
 54 Repub|            hear. ~You recognize the truth of what I have been saying?
 55 Repub|         will be seen that she is in truth divine, and that all other
 56 Repub|           their power seeking after truth for the sake of knowledge,
 57 Repub|             this was the reason why truth forced us to admit, not
 58 Repub|             saying about him is the truth, will they be angry with
 59 Repub|           philosopher is a lover of truth and being? ~They would not
 60 Repub|           gave us a fair measure of truth. ~But, my friend, I said,
 61 Repub|            falls short of the whole truth is not fair measure; for
 62 Repub|          resting upon that on which truth and being shine, the soul
 63 Repub|             Now, that which imparts truth to the known and the power
 64 Repub|            cause of science, and of truth in so far as the latter
 65 Repub|          beautiful too, as are both truth and knowledge, you will
 66 Repub|           other sphere, science and truth may be deemed to be like
 67 Repub|           the author of science and truth, and yet surpasses them
 68 Repub|           have different degrees of truth, and that the copy is to
 69 Repub|             that their objects have truth. ~I understand, he replied,
 70 Repub|      replied. ~To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing
 71 Repub|      immediate source of reason and truth in the intellectual; and
 72 Repub|            is looking away from the truth? ~Yes, he said, such an
 73 Repub|            them would have seen the truth as keenly as they see what
 74 Repub|    uneducated and uninformed of the truth, nor yet those who never
 75 Repub|          and just and good in their truth. And thus our State, which
 76 Repub|             great good. Whereas the truth is that the State in which
 77 Repub|             to lead the mind toward truth? ~Yes, in a very remarkable
 78 Repub|            to pass from becoming to truth and being. ~That is excellent,
 79 Repub|           in the attainment of pure truth? ~Yes; that is a marked
 80 Repub|           will draw the soul toward truth, and create the spirit of
 81 Repub|            eyes, for by it alone is truth seen. Now there are two
 82 Repub|             the true double, or the truth of any other proportion. ~
 83 Repub|           investigating their exact truth. ~I quite agree, though
 84 Repub|        image only, but the absolute truth, according to my notion.
 85 Repub|            opinion, but to absolute truth, never faltering at any
 86 Repub|      Certainly, he said. ~And as to truth, I said, is not a soul equally
 87 Repub|         senses, and in company with truth to attain absolute being:
 88 Repub|         while he is ignorant of the truth he will be likely to honor
 89 Repub|     dialectician who is seeking for truth, and not the eristic, who
 90 Repub|            ruling body, although in truth he was neither ruler nor
 91 Repub|           overmasters democracy-the truth being that the excessive
 92 Repub|          them. ~That is exactly the truth. ~Then come impeachments
 93 Repub|             as you know, he attains truth most nearly, and is least
 94 Repub|           is wholly directed to the truth, and cares less than either
 95 Repub|             pleasure of knowing the truth, and in that pursuit abiding,
 96 Repub|             the nature of essential truth, greater experience of the
 97 Repub|             of learning and knowing truth. ~Then the lover of wisdom
 98 Repub|            are inexperienced in the truth, as they have wrong ideas
 99 Repub|            the same degree. ~And of truth in the same degree? ~Yes. ~
100 Repub|              that which has less of truth will also have less of essence? ~
101 Repub|            of the body have less of truth and essence than those which
102 Repub|             the body itself less of truth and essence than the soul? ~
103 Repub|           Troy, in ignorance of the truth. ~Something of that sort
104 Repub|             inasmuch as they follow truth; and they will have the
105 Repub|               Yes. ~And if there is truth in what has preceded, he
106 Repub|             is thrice removed as to truth from the pleasure of the
107 Repub|           parted from the tyrant in truth of pleasure, he will find
108 Repub|             is right and speaks the truth, and the disapprover is
109 Repub|            reverenced more than the truth, and therefore I will speak
110 Repub|         supposed to be speaking the truth. ~At any rate, he replied,
111 Repub|             he was not speaking the truth. ~No wonder, then, that
112 Repub|            indistinct expression of truth. ~No wonder. ~Suppose now
113 Repub|          from the king and from the truth? ~That appears to be so. ~
114 Repub|         said, is a long way off the truth, and can do all things because
115 Repub|             thrice removed from the truth, and could easily be made
116 Repub|        without any knowledge of the truth, because they are appearances
117 Repub|           in the second remove from truth in what you say of virtue,
118 Repub|        virtue and the like, but the truth they never reach? The poet
119 Repub|             excellence or beauty or truth of every structure, animate
120 Repub|             thrice removed from the truth? ~Certainly. ~And what is
121 Repub|          work, are far removed from truth, and the companions and
122 Repub|           very far removed from the truth. ~Exactly. ~But we have
123 Repub|             that account betray the truth. I dare say, Glaucon, that
124 Repub|       seriously as attaining to the truth; and he who listens to her,
125 Repub|      suspect the opposite to be the truth, and that injustice which,
126 Repub|             far, we have spoken the truth concerning her as she appears
127 Repub|        below an adamantine faith in truth and right, that there too