Dialogue

  1 Intro|       ascribes to the mystery of being and not-being, or to the
  2 Intro|    between the world of absolute being and of generation, just
  3 Intro| Parmenides when he discourses of being and of essence, adopting
  4 Intro|      heavens in a prior state of being. The ideas also remain,
  5 Intro|          a tale of Solon’s, who, being the friend of Dropidas my
  6 Intro|          was ninety years old, I being not more than ten. The occasion
  7 Intro|      question. Created, I reply, being visible and tangible and
  8 Intro|         of causes. And the world being thus created according to
  9 Intro|      image can only be probable; being is to becoming what truth
 10 Intro|       therefore not jealous, and being free from jealousy he desired
 11 Intro|        of the four elements; and being at unity with itself it
 12 Intro|  intractable nature of the other being compressed into the same.
 13 Intro|        is the best of creations, being the work of the best. And
 14 Intro|        the work of the best. And being composed of the same, the
 15 Intro|        becoming, and not to true being; and equally wrong are we
 16 Intro|         body moving in an orbit, being one of the seven orbits
 17 Intro|        with equal swiftness—this being the reason why they overtake
 18 Intro|          end the stars came into being, that the created heaven
 19 Intro|        fixed stars were created, being divine and eternal animals,
 20 Intro|         from view, had come into being, the Creator addressed them
 21 Intro|      dissolved, but only an evil being would dissolve that which
 22 Intro|       distinguished two kinds of being—the unchanging or invisible,
 23 Intro|        an invisible and formless being which receives all things,
 24 Intro|        so there are two kinds of being corresponding to them; the
 25 Intro|        the same time.~To sum up: Being and generation and space,
 26 Intro|        nature like a sponge, and being kept cool by drink and air
 27 Intro|           For the authors of our being, in obedience to their Father’
 28 Intro|        are received into it; and being a hollow tissue it is for
 29 Intro|         higher sense of delight, being an imitation of divine harmony
 30 Intro|      which we call blood is red, being the nurturing principle
 31 Intro|      frame is soft and delicate, being newly made of marrow and
 32 Intro|      from long burning, and from being corroded grows bitter, and
 33 Intro|       and sinews, and instead of being oily and smooth and glutinous
 34 Intro|    disease is akin to the living being and has an appointed term,
 35 Intro|       image of the Intellectual, being the one perfect only-begotten
 36 Intro|    nature, they were relieved at being able to utter the thoughts
 37 Intro|         one than two. The words ‘being,’ or ‘unity,’ or essence,’
 38 Intro|       enlargement. We know that ‘being’ is only the verb of existence,
 39 Intro|         to comprehend all truth. Being or essence, and similar
 40 Intro|         them a supreme or divine being, in which they thought that
 41 Intro|       Rep.). They were not, like being or essence, mere vacant
 42 Intro|        be imperfect and unequal, being the first attempt to impress
 43 Intro|           When we accuse them of being under the influence of words,
 44 Intro|         are mere names, like the Being of the Eleatics, unless
 45 Intro|         he speaks of the visible being in the image of the invisible.
 46 Intro|          is the place of mind or being, and the world of sense
 47 Intro|    Parmenides and of the Eleatic Being, the foundation of so much
 48 Intro|        class of (Greek). Matter, being, the Same, the eternal,—
 49 Intro|          for any of these terms, being almost vacant of meaning,
 50 Intro|         meditation on the Divine Being. No one saw that this objective
 51 Intro|    describe the nature of God or Being under negatives. He sings
 52 Intro|          negatives. He sings of ‘Being unbegotten and imperishable,
 53 Intro|          be described as Mind or Being or Truth or God or the unchangeable
 54 Intro|       time but the truest of all Being, the most real of all realities,
 55 Intro|         but they are so far from being elements (Greek) or letters
 56 Intro|           air, and water, which, being composed of similar triangles,
 57 Intro|          masses of the same kind being drawn towards greater: (
 58 Intro|       the intervals between them being in the ratio of two and
 59 Intro|       and night, is described as being the most perfect or intelligent.
 60 Intro|       the orders of the thinking being to the extremities of his
 61 Intro|         our sensations—the first being a sudden restoration, the
 62 Intro|      through the pores, this air being thrust out of its place
 63 Intro|         the nature of the living being and is only irritated by
 64 Intro|         the region of the liver, being transmitted by means of
 65 Intro|        the ancients the merit of being the stepping-stones by which
 66 Intro|          especially incapable of being tested by experiment. (Compare
 67 Intro|        the triangles of Plato in being too small to be visible.
 68 Intro|    perceptible qualities—between Being in the abstract and Nothing.
 69 Intro|        in the world of immutable being. And when reason, which
 70 Intro|        jealousy of anything. And being free from jealousy, he desired
 71 Timae|         Very true.~SOCRATES: And being thus trained they were not
 72 Timae|   conceits, but I am afraid that being only wanderers from one
 73 Timae|       State, I readily assented, being very well aware, that, if
 74 Timae|          rest fell off from her, being compelled to stand alone,
 75 Timae|          very great advantage of being a fact and not a fiction?
 76 Timae|     beginning? Created, I reply, being visible and tangible and
 77 Timae|  analogous to the real words. As being is to becoming, so is truth
 78 Timae|        jealousy of anything. And being free from jealousy, he desired
 79 Timae|          providence of God.~This being supposed, let us proceed
 80 Timae|        be need of another living being which would include both,
 81 Timae|    having every part entire, and being therefore perfect and not
 82 Timae|        place, because the living being had no need of eyes when
 83 Timae|         Creator conceived that a being which was self-sufficient
 84 Timae|        form was assigned to him, being of all the seven that which
 85 Timae|        was fitting, each portion being a compound of the same,
 86 Timae|          less than 2), the other being that kind of mean which
 87 Timae|          reason and harmony, and being made by the best of intellectual
 88 Timae|        in the world of immutable being. And when reason, which
 89 Timae|          the nature of the ideal being was everlasting, but to
 90 Timae|         and the heaven came into being at the same instant in order
 91 Timae|        and the day were created, being the period of the one most
 92 Timae|      know that their wanderings, being infinite in number and admirable
 93 Timae|         these reasons, came into being such of the stars as in
 94 Timae|   retiring nature, had come into being, the creator of the universe
 95 Timae|         undone, but only an evil being would wish to undo that
 96 Timae|        if, when in that state of being, he did not desist from
 97 Timae|        them to become a rational being. And if these combine in
 98 Timae|      which we now term the head, being the most divine part of
 99 Timae|          whole stream of vision, being similarly affected in virtue
100 Timae|        changed and extinguished, being no longer of one nature
101 Timae|    reason or intellect; the only being which can properly have
102 Timae|           of those things which, being moved by others, are compelled
103 Timae|       the things which come into being through necessity—for the
104 Timae|       for the creation is mixed, being made up of necessity and
105 Timae|    attribute to this new kind of being? We reply, that it is the
106 Timae|        an invisible and formless being which receives all things
107 Timae|        that there is one kind of being which is always the same,
108 Timae|   vindicating the nature of true being, maintains that while two
109 Timae|           and my verdict is that being and space and generation,
110 Timae|      variety of appearances; and being full of powers which were
111 Timae|     great number of small bodies being combined into a few large
112 Timae|          angles one solid angle, being that which is nearest to
113 Timae|         and also the lightest as being composed of the smallest
114 Timae|  continue to be dissolved until, being completely forced back and
115 Timae|      their own kindred, or else, being overcome and assimilated
116 Timae|          their victors, and from being many become one. And owing
117 Timae|          four elements, and this being circular and having a tendency
118 Timae|     everywhere, and air next, as being next in rarity of the elements;
119 Timae|         whereas the fusile kind, being formed of large and uniform
120 Timae|      much as is fine and liquid (being so called by reason of its
121 Timae|       neighbouring air, and this being rendered heavy, and, when
122 Timae|      earth; for their particles, being smaller than the interstices
123 Timae|          out the lesser, but not being able to take their places,
124 Timae|   principle in us; and this from being unequal and disturbed, is
125 Timae|     sphere, all the extremities, being equidistant from the centre,
126 Timae|       opposite of them all. Such being the nature of the world,
127 Timae|       body of the opposite kind, being immobile, and not extending
128 Timae|       water which we call tears, being itself an opposite fire
129 Timae|   assailing them from without or being perpetrated by the desires
130 Timae|           For the authors of our being, remembering the command
131 Timae|        sinews, which admitted of being stretched and relaxed about
132 Timae|       also that it might not, by being crowded and pressed and
133 Timae|          nature which comes into being and grows up in us by a
134 Timae|       rest of the body, but also being in every man far weaker.
135 Timae|        far outside the head, but being too slow to escape, was
136 Timae|      hair sprang up in the skin, being akin to it because it is
137 Timae|         be truly called a living being, and the animal of which
138 Timae|         not differ from a living being, but is fixed and rooted
139 Timae|    ceasing so long as the mortal being holds together. This process,
140 Timae|          in order that the body, being watered and cooled, may
141 Timae|          the network of a creel, being woven all of fire and extended
142 Timae|       air at the other; and this being affected in the same way
143 Timae|          higher sort of delight, being an imitation of divine harmony
144 Timae|          most pervading of them, being created by the cutting action
145 Timae|         divided parts within us, being carried to its kindred nature,
146 Timae|       mass is soft and delicate, being freshly formed of marrow
147 Timae|        comprehended in the body, being older and weaker than the
148 Timae|          the animal grows great, being nourished by a multitude
149 Timae|        flesh which is corrupted, being hard to decompose, from
150 Timae|    burning grows black, and from being everywhere corroded becomes
151 Timae|       other times the bitterness being tinged with blood has a
152 Timae|          diseased, and no longer being separated from the muscles
153 Timae|         flesh and bone, and from being oily and smooth and glutinous
154 Timae|       hard to be got rid of, and being an affection of a sacred
155 Timae|      stale blood, and which from being flesh is dissolved again
156 Timae|         degree of intensity; and being carried to the three places
157 Timae|         which we call the living being; and when in this compound
158 Timae|        manner akin to the living being, whose complex frame has
159 Timae|        the divinity of each one, being that part which, as we say,
160 Timae|          assimilate the thinking being to the thought, renewing