Dialogue

  1 Repub|          man of sense this is in my opinion the greatest. ~Well said,
  2 Repub|         mighty man, who had a great opinion of his own power, was the
  3 Repub|            if contrary to your real opinion. ~Yes, he said, I will,
  4 Repub|            I myself am not of their opinion. But still I acknowledge
  5 Repub|          for they throw in the good opinion of the gods, and will tell
  6 Repub|            only censured by law and opinion. They say also that honesty
  7 Repub|          injustice originate. In my opinion the true and healthy constitution
  8 Repub|            with you, he said; in my opinion those stories are quite
  9 Repub|             say that nothing in his opinion is more glorious than ~"
 10 Repub|           he said, I am strongly of opinion that they ought not to hear
 11 Repub|            should like to have your opinion in confirmation of my own,
 12 Repub|       vicious, man has wisdom-in my opinion. ~And in mine also. ~This
 13 Repub|        moderate. ~True. ~And in our opinion the guardians ought to have
 14 Repub|             compels to change their opinion. ~I understand, he said,
 15 Repub|      discovered. ~And, in my humble opinion, very satisfactorily discovered,
 16 Repub|        under all circumstances that opinion about the nature of things
 17 Repub|          Salvation of what? ~Of the opinion respecting things to be
 18 Repub|              and does not lose this opinion. Shall I give you an illustration? ~
 19 Repub|              and the color of their opinion about dangers and of every
 20 Repub|          dangers and of every other opinion was to be indelibly fixed
 21 Repub|      universal saving power of true opinion in conformity with law about
 22 Repub|            of a slave-this, in your opinion, is not the courage which
 23 Repub|           guidance of mind and true opinion, are to be found only in
 24 Repub| preservation in the soldiers of the opinion which the law ordains about
 25 Repub|             is no difference, in my opinion, he said. ~Because, if any
 26 Repub|         call unjust action, and the opinion which presides over it ignorance. ~
 27 Repub|          and children-for we are of opinion that the right or wrong
 28 Repub|       citizens, the only way, in my opinion, of arriving at a right
 29 Repub|            the Hellenes were of the opinion, which is still generally
 30 Repub|         because they are all of one opinion about what is near and dear
 31 Repub|            he said, of hearing your opinion? ~Both should be forbidden,
 32 Repub|         other, who opines only, has opinion? ~Certainly. ~But suppose
 33 Repub|           we admit the existence of opinion? ~Undoubtedly. ~As being
 34 Repub|              Another faculty. ~Then opinion and knowledge have to do
 35 Repub|           of all faculties. ~And is opinion also a faculty? ~Certainly,
 36 Repub|             Certainly, he said; for opinion is that with which we are
 37 Repub|        which we are able to form an opinion. ~And yet you were acknowledging
 38 Repub|        knowledge is not the same as opinion? ~Why, yes, he said: how
 39 Repub|            Yes. ~Then knowledge and opinion having distinct powers have
 40 Repub|         nature of being? ~Yes. ~And opinion is to have an opinion? ~
 41 Repub|           And opinion is to have an opinion? ~Yes. ~And do we know what
 42 Repub|            is the subject-matter of opinion the same as the subject-matter
 43 Repub|          and if, as we were saying, opinion and knowledge are distinct
 44 Repub|          sphere of knowledge and of opinion cannot be the same. ~Then
 45 Repub|            be the subject-matter of opinion? ~Yes, something else. Well,
 46 Repub|     not-being the subject-matter of opinion? or, rather, how can there
 47 Repub|         rather, how can there be an opinion at all about not-being?
 48 Repub|          Reflect: when a man has an opinion, has he not an opinion about
 49 Repub|           an opinion, has he not an opinion about something? Can he
 50 Repub|           something? Can he have an opinion which is an opinion about
 51 Repub|         have an opinion which is an opinion about nothing? ~Impossible. ~
 52 Repub|          Impossible. ~He who has an opinion has an opinion about some
 53 Repub|           who has an opinion has an opinion about some one thing? ~Yes. ~
 54 Repub|    knowledge? ~True, he said. ~Then opinion is not concerned either
 55 Repub|           seems to be true. ~But is opinion to be sought without and
 56 Repub|       neither. ~Then I suppose that opinion appears to you to be darker
 57 Repub|           Then you would infer that opinion is intermediate? ~No question. ~
 58 Repub|             something which we call opinion? ~There has. ~Then what
 59 Repub|           truly call the subject of opinion, and assign each to their
 60 Repub|             the gentleman who is of opinion that there is no absolute
 61 Repub|            idea of beauty -in whose opinion the beautiful is the manifold-he,
 62 Repub|           be described as matter of opinion, and not as matter of knowledge;
 63 Repub|         persons may be said to have opinion but not knowledge? ~That
 64 Repub|            to know, and not to have opinion only? ~Neither can that
 65 Repub|       knowledge, the other those of opinion? The latter are the same,
 66 Repub|           in calling them lovers of opinion rather than lovers of wisdom,
 67 Repub|            wisdom and not lovers of opinion. ~Assuredly. ~
 68 Repub|           like to know what is your opinion. ~Hear my answer; I am of
 69 Repub|             Hear my answer; I am of opinion that they are quite right. ~
 70 Repub|             steering-everyone is of opinion that he has a right to steer,
 71 Repub|          best are useless; in which opinion I agreed. ~Yes. ~And the
 72 Repub|       overwhelming flood of popular opinion? or will he be carried away
 73 Repub|             good earnest. ~Now what opinion of any other Sophist, or
 74 Repub|         fact, teach nothing but the opinion of the many, that is to
 75 Repub|             now existing is in your opinion the one adapted to her. ~
 76 Repub|    controversy, of which the end is opinion and strife, whether they
 77 Repub|          acknowledge ourselves. ~My opinion agrees with yours, he said. ~
 78 Repub|            say that this is not the opinion of the multitude? ~I should
 79 Repub|           he thinks, as a matter of opinion. ~And do you not know, I
 80 Repub|             perishing, then she has opinion only, and goes blinking
 81 Repub|          about, and is first of one opinion and then of another, and
 82 Repub|           original as the sphere of opinion is to the sphere of knowledge? ~
 83 Repub|          being intermediate between opinion and reason. ~You have quite
 84 Repub|           whether true or false, my opinion is that in the world of
 85 Repub|             a simpleton: but, in my opinion, that knowledge only which
 86 Repub|     implying greater clearness than opinion and less clearness than
 87 Repub|           for intellect and two for opinion, and to call the first division
 88 Repub|       fourth perception of shadows, opinion being concerned with becoming,
 89 Repub|             so is pure intellect to opinion. And as intellect is to
 90 Repub|              And as intellect is to opinion, so is science to belief,
 91 Repub|      subdivision of the subjects of opinion and of intellect, for it
 92 Repub|             them, not by appeals to opinion, but to absolute truth,
 93 Repub|           at all, which is given by opinion, and not by science; dreaming
 94 Repub|        although this may not be the opinion of men in general? ~Yes,
 95 Repub|           and then we will give our opinion. ~A fair invitation, he
 96 Repub|          the soul of a slave, in my opinion. ~And the State which is
 97 Repub|             also decide who in your opinion is first in the scale of
 98 Repub|           of honor-what will be his opinion? Will he not think that
 99 Repub|           class which contains true opinion and knowledge and mind and
100 Repub|            he has any regard for my opinion. But, if he agree so far,
101 Repub|    beautiful? or will he have right opinion from being compelled to
102 Repub|           he will no more have true opinion than he will have knowledge
103 Repub|            of the soul which has an opinion contrary to measure is not
104 Repub|         same with that which has an opinion in accordance with measure? ~
105 Repub|        unjust just: for you were of opinion that even if the true state