The Apology
   Part
 1 Text |      air, and talking a deal of nonsense concerning matters of which
 2 Text |       of horses and asses. Such nonsense, Meletus, could only have


Charmides
   Part
 3 Text |        that what I am saying is nonsense, I replied; and yet if a
 4 Text |        of the game of draughts?~Nonsense about the game of draughts.~


Cratylus
   Part
 5 Intro| blending inextricably sense and nonsense; sometimes enveloping in
 6 Text |         think that I am talking nonsense; and indeed I believe that
 7 Text |         that I am talking great nonsense.~HERMOGENES: Why, Socrates?~
 8 Text |       assured he will only talk nonsense about the rest. Do you not
 9 Text |   speaker would only be talking nonsense.~SOCRATES: Well, but that
10 Text |        will tell me whether the nonsense would be true or false,


Crito
   Part
11 Text |        of talking—mere childish nonsense? That is what I want to


Euthydemus
   Part
12 Text |         no objection to talking nonsense.~Fearing that there would
13 Text |     answerer.~CRITO: Ctesippus! nonsense.~SOCRATES: All I know is
14 Text |     them, then they are talking nonsense, for they are worse than


Gorgias
   Part
15 Text |        will never cease talking nonsense. At your age, Socrates,
16 Text |        and physicians and other nonsense; I am not speaking of them.~
17 Text |         Fudge about shoes! What nonsense are you talking?~SOCRATES:


Laches
   Part
18 Text |       been proved to be talking nonsense himself, he wants to prove
19 Text |     Nicias; and you are talking nonsense, as I shall endeavour to
20 Text |      confess that he is talking nonsense, but that he shuffles up


Laws
   Book
21 12   |     howlings, and talking other nonsense of the same sort. But now,


Lysis
   Part
22 Text |        Ctesippus; he is talking nonsense, and is stark mad.~O Hippothales,


Parmenides
   Part
23 Intro|        falling into an abyss of nonsense.’ ‘You are young, Socrates,
24 Text |        into a bottomless pit of nonsense, and perish; and so I return


Phaedo
   Part
25 Intro|         once we degenerate into nonsense. It is a passing thought
26 Text |   meaning, and were not talking nonsense when they intimated in a
27 Text |       was unconsciously talking nonsense.~Then may we not say, Simmias,
28 Text |       who talks thus is talking nonsense. For the truth is, that


Phaedrus
   Part
29 Intro|    Socrates to mix up sense and nonsense in such a way that no exact
30 Text |        or three ways.~PHAEDRUS: Nonsense, Socrates; what you call
31 Text |      might answer: What amazing nonsense you are talking! As if I


Philebus
   Part
32 Text |      detecting her?~PROTARCHUS: Nonsense, Socrates.~SOCRATES: Why?


Protagoras
   Part
33 Text |    harp-girls; and they have no nonsense or games, but are contented


The Republic
   Book
34 1    |      interest, for this sort of nonsense will not do for me; I must
35 1    |        three, "for this sort of nonsense will not do for me"-then
36 2    |      power of helping justice. ~Nonsense, he replied. But let me
37 4    |        unseen by gods and men. ~Nonsense, said Glaucon: did you not
38 9    |   distinction, is all smoke and nonsense to him? ~Very true. ~And


The Sophist
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39 Text |    continuous, would be talking nonsense in all this if there were


Theaetetus
   Part
40 Text |       man is not likely to talk nonsense. Let us try to understand
41 Text |          SOCRATES: Am I talking nonsense, then? Think: is not seeing
42 Text |        and fight, I was talking nonsense—I should rather compare
43 Text |       and again, me for talking nonsense and you for assenting to
44 Text |      likely I have been talking nonsense about them; for they may
45 Text |        is heterodoxy is talking nonsense; for neither in this, any
46 Text |   unintentionally he is talking nonsense?~THEAETETUS: Exactly.~SOCRATES: