Dialogue

 1 Repub|      avoid answering? ~You are a philosopher, Thrasymachus, I replied,
 2 Repub|          have the qualities of a philosopher? ~I do not apprehend your
 3 Repub|     charming; your dog is a true philosopher. ~Why? ~Why, because he
 4 Repub|            On the other hand the philosopher will have the quality of
 5 Repub|   Certainly. ~And one woman is a philosopher, and another is an enemy
 6 Repub|        And may we not say of the philosopher that he is a lover, not
 7 Repub|          we maintain not to be a philosopher or a lover of knowledge,
 8 Repub|           may be justly termed a philosopher? Am I not right? ~Glaucon
 9 Repub|       said: If curiosity makes a philosopher, you will find many a strange
10 Repub|     observing, the nature of the philosopher has to be ascertained. We
11 Repub| pleasure-I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. ~That
12 Repub|          we must insist that the philosopher should have a good memory? ~
13 Repub|         which describes the true philosopher in his relation to the State;
14 Repub|        of a lie be any part of a philosopher's nature? Will he not utterly
15 Repub|    should again set in array the philosopher's virtues, as you will doubtless
16 Repub|       and definition of the true philosopher. ~Exactly. ~And we have
17 Repub| qualities which we required in a philosopher is a rare plant which is
18 Repub|          you are right. ~And our philosopher follows the same analogy-he
19 Repub|       world cannot possibly be a philosopher? ~Impossible. ~And therefore
20 Repub|         see any way in which the philosopher can be preserved in his
21 Repub|    admitted by us to be the true philosopher's gifts. ~Yes. ~Will not
22 Repub|      circumstanced ever become a philosopher? ~Impossible. ~Then were
23 Repub|     qualities which make a man a philosopher, may, if he be ill-educated,
24 Repub|    beyond our ken, the perfected philosopher is or has been or hereafter
25 Repub|  converse? ~Impossible. ~And the philosopher holding converse with the
26 Repub|         Will they doubt that the philosopher is a lover of truth and
27 Repub|       perfect guardian must be a philosopher. ~Yes, he said, let that
28 Repub|        array his troops, and the philosopher also, because he has to
29 Repub|     guardian is both warrior and philosopher? ~Certainly. ~Then this
30 Repub|       pursued in the spirit of a philosopher, and not of a shopkeeper! ~
31 Repub|        more living the life of a philosopher; often he is busy with politics,
32 Repub|        suppose, I said, that the philosopher sets any value on other
33 Repub|   pleasure of knowledge than the philosopher has of the pleasure of gain? ~
34 Repub|       the pleasure of gain? ~The philosopher, he replied, has greatly
35 Repub|       true being is known to the philosopher only. ~His experience, then,
36 Repub|   ambitious man, but only by the philosopher? ~What faculty? ~Reason,