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Book
501 12 | what is just in auspicious words; and he who does otherwise
502 12 | by people who use harsh words, such as xenelasia or banishment
503 12 | and the abstinence from words of evil omen and the reverse,
504 12 | nomos). And of all other words, such as the praises and
505 12 | the antidote of all other words, and thus make himself and
506 12 | able to interpret them in words, and carry them out in action,
Lysis
Part
507 Intro| laxer or stricter use of words, seems to have greatly exercised
508 Text | he avers, the sound of my words is always dinning in his
509 Text | were to infuriate them with words and songs, that would show
510 Text | Will you tell me by what words or actions I may become
511 Text | Try, then, to remember the words, and be as exact as you
512 Text | blushed as he spoke, the words seeming to come from his
513 Text | mistaken, in the following words:—~‘God is ever drawing like
514 Text | that you have heard those words.~Yes, he said; I have.~And
515 Text | I said, however, a few words to the boys at parting:
Menexenus
Part
516 Pre | sentences, and in the use of words, if his earlier writings
517 Pre | opening and the concluding words bear a great resemblance
518 Pre | as self-convicted by the words of Socrates. For the disparaging
519 Intro| Rhetoric, the well-known words, ‘It is easy to praise the
520 Text | souls with their embellished words; in every conceivable form
521 Text | stand listening to their words, Menexenus, and become enchanted
522 Text | does the sound of their words keep ringing in my ears.~
523 Text | tribute of deeds and of words. The departed have already
524 Text | friends; the tribute of words remains to be given to them,
525 Text | law ordained. For noble words are a memorial and a crown
526 Text | world below. Remember our words, then, and whatever is your
527 Text | but if you neglect our words and are disgraced in your
Meno
Part
528 Intro| Greek gentleman, and in the words of a poet, ‘that virtue
529 Intro| definition is contained in the words, ‘the power of getting them.’ ‘
530 Intro| cannot always be given in words. A person may have some
531 Intro| The fallacy of the latter words is transparent. And Socrates
532 Intro| also be gathered from the ‘words of priests and priestesses:’ (
533 Intro| indicated by his parting words. Perhaps Plato may have
534 Intro| speaks in the Phaedo of the words with which he has comforted
535 Intro| quickening into life of old words and notions latent in the
536 Intro| the transposition of two words. For objects of sense he
537 Text | or extremity?—all which words I use in the same sense,
538 Text | or another, or in other words the want of them, may be
539 Text | now, and see whether their words are true—they say that the
540 Text | There again, Socrates, your words seem to me excellent.~SOCRATES:
541 Text | out, judging from your own words, how, if you are not acquainted
Parmenides
Part
542 Intro| may certainly apply the words in which he himself describes
543 Intro| the mere recital of the words spoken, the observations
544 Intro| trivial to us, because the words to which they relate have
545 Intro| straw-splitting, or legerdemain of words. Yet there was a power in
546 Intro| not the same with one; the words ‘being’ and ‘one’ have different
547 Intro| something known, or the words would be unintelligible;
548 Intro| existence of the many: (12) Words are used through long chains
549 Intro| be deduced from them. The words ‘one,’ ‘other,’ ‘being,’ ‘
550 Intro| were more bound up with words; and words when once presented
551 Intro| bound up with words; and words when once presented to the
552 Intro| the missing link between words and things. The famous dispute
553 Intro| new-fangled forms; while similar words, such as development, evolution,
554 Intro| use of them, or, in other words, they were only applicable
555 Intro| roused to the utmost about words of which they could have
556 Intro| class of disputes; as the words substance, nature, person,
557 Intro| them from examining the words themselves. Either the effort
558 Intro| To have the true use of words we must compare them with
559 Intro| understanding about the meaning of words; because we know that the
560 Intro| the past. We know that the words ‘cause’ and ‘effect’ are
561 Intro| maker or artificer. The words which we use are imperfect
562 Text | feelings in the following words:—~Socrates, he said, I admire
563 Text | through what an ocean of words I have to wade at my time
564 Text | the very meaning of the words, ‘if one is not,’ would
565 Text | question.~Yes.~Do not the words ‘is not’ signify absence
Phaedo
Part
566 Intro| or gave an expression in words to a cherished instinct.
567 Intro| and can form no idea. The words or figures of speech which
568 Intro| not realities to them, but words or ideas; the outward symbols
569 Intro| which he himself is. In the words of the Timaeus, he is good,
570 Intro| believe that the fewer our words the better. At the approach
571 Intro| of ideas was also one of words, it is not surprising that
572 Intro| have grasped, as a play of words only. But the truth is,
573 Intro| turning away, and also by the words of Socrates to his disciples: ‘
574 Intro| mechanical force. How far the words attributed to Socrates were
575 Text | died so fearlessly, and his words and bearing were so noble
576 Text | same or nearly the same words: ‘Cultivate and make music,’
577 Text | should not only put together words, but should invent stories,
578 Text | was obscure, Socrates.~My words, too, are only an echo;
579 Text | many when they hear your words will say how truly you have
580 Text | with the exception of the words ‘they have found them out’;
581 Text | which they will express in words something like the following? ‘
582 Text | pure. These are the sort of words, Simmias, which the true
583 Text | meaning, as I interpret the words, ‘the true philosophers.’
584 Text | not always expressed in words—they are really generated
585 Text | and Simmias spoke a few words to one another. And Socrates
586 Text | in which he received the words of the young men, and then
587 Text | represents Odysseus doing in the words—~‘He beat his breast, and
588 Text | and try the mettle of your words. Here lies the point:—You
589 Text | go back to those familiar words which are in the mouth of
590 Text | exceed Socrates, as the words may seem to imply, because
591 Text | answer my question in the words in which I ask it: let me
592 Text | which Homer describes in the words,—~‘Far off, where is the
593 Text | to comfort himself with words like these, which is the
594 Text | though I have spoken many words in the endeavour to show
595 Text | joys of the blessed,— these words of mine, with which I was
596 Text | grave or bury him; for false words are not only evil in themselves,
597 Text | When he had spoken these words, he arose and went into
598 Text | patience. When we heard his words we were ashamed, and refrained
599 Text | said—they were his last words—he said: Crito, I owe a
Phaedrus
Part
600 Intro| chirruping around may carry our words to the Muses, who are their
601 Intro| order or connection in his words any more than in a nursery
602 Intro| adaptation, but uses the same words for all. It is not a legitimate
603 Intro| and putters together of words. This is the message which
604 Intro| parts embroidered with fine words which are not in Socrates’
605 Intro| and he gives weight to his words by going back to general
606 Intro| any serious meaning to his words. Had he lived in our times
607 Intro| a little parodying the words of Pausanias in the Symposium, ‘
608 Intro| might describe in eloquent words the nature of such a union;
609 Intro| appropriate to ourselves the words of Plato. The use of such
610 Intro| and justice—or, in other words, the assertion of the essentially
611 Intro| carved, or described in words only, we have not the substance
612 Intro| essential nature of man; and his words apply equally to the modern
613 Intro| may further compare the words of St. Paul, ‘Written not
614 Intro| degenerate into fable? Why did words lose their power of expression?
615 Intro| to exist. It had spread words like plaster over the whole
616 Intro| of distinguishing between words and things. It was so hopelessly
617 Text | import,’ as I may say in the words of Pindar, ‘than any business’?~
618 Text | me and of many a man; his words would be quite refreshing,
619 Text | I did not learn the very words—O no; nevertheless I have
620 Text | observed to exchange two words they are supposed to meet
621 Text | you. For they praise your words and actions in a wrong way;
622 Text | times, either from want of words or from want of pains; and
623 Text | rather than the lover; his words were as follows:—~‘All good
624 Text | have a very unusual flow of words.~SOCRATES: Listen to me,
625 Text | noble thing; for the two words, mantike and manike, are
626 Text | be for my good, may your words come to pass. But why did
627 Text | the truth.~SOCRATES: The words of the wise are not to be
628 Text | that you read me the first words of Lysias’ speech.~PHAEDRUS: ‘
629 Text | rhetorical error of those words?~PHAEDRUS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
630 Text | that I may have his exact words.~PHAEDRUS: ‘You know how
631 Text | any more connexion in his words than in the epitaph which
632 Text | the right application of words and training.~PHAEDRUS:
633 Text | with pen and ink, sowing words which can neither speak
634 Text | sows and plants therein words which are able to help themselves
Philebus
Part
635 Intro| attend to the meaning of the words, we are compelled to admit
636 Intro| state of comparison. All words or ideas to which the words ‘
637 Intro| words or ideas to which the words ‘gently,’ ‘extremely,’ and
638 Intro| to yourself. Whether the words are actually spoken or not,
639 Intro| of the process; and the words and images which are inscribed
640 Intro| custom (like the use of other words which at first referred
641 Intro| Utility, not exactly in the words, but in the spirit of one
642 Intro| of mankind, or, in other words, to increase the sum of
643 Intro| distinctions of morality. Words such as truth, justice,
644 Intro| human heart: to no other words can the same associations
645 Intro| common language. And as words influence men’s thoughts,
646 Intro| be dissatisfied with the words ‘utility’ or ‘pleasure’:
647 Intro| Let us note the remarkable words, ‘That in the divine nature
648 Intro| the significance of the words ‘those who said of old time
649 Intro| describe him in his own words as a ‘spectator of all time
650 Text | be the witnesses of your words. And now, Socrates, whether
651 Text | laughingly in disproof of his own words: Why, here is a miracle,
652 Text | think so too, but how do his words bear upon us and upon the
653 Text | nothing to apprehend, for the words ‘if you are willing’ dispel
654 Text | less, or are denoted by the words ‘exceedingly,’ ‘gently,’ ‘
655 Text | and do you listen to my words.~PROTARCHUS: Proceed.~SOCRATES:
656 Text | then suppose that these words are rashly spoken by us,
657 Text | the fewest and shortest words about matters of the greatest
658 Text | should like to say a few words about it.~PROTARCHUS: What
659 Text | to almost to write down words in the soul, and when the
660 Text | answering to true opinions and words are true, and to false opinions
661 Text | and to false opinions and words false; are they not?~PROTARCHUS:
662 Text | PROTARCHUS: Yes, and their words are of no mean authority.~
663 Text | my release without many words;—if I promise that to-morrow
Protagoras
Part
664 Intro| both of whom said a few words—in the presence of a distinguished
665 Intro| are urged first in a few words by Critias, and then by
666 Intro| interpretation of his own; as if the words might really be made to
667 Text | can be drawn from your words.~I proceeded: Is not a Sophist,
668 Text | room which rendered his words inaudible.~No sooner had
669 Text | again, when I listen to your words, I waver; and am disposed
670 Text | corrected, or, in other words, called to account, which
671 Text | things at such length that words never seemed to fail, or
672 Text | replied, many a battle of words have I fought, and if I
673 Text | the company applauded his words.~Hippias the sage spoke
674 Text | reins of speech, that your words may be grander and more
675 Text | of land into an ocean of words, but let there be a mean
676 Text | will keep watch over your words and will prescribe their
677 Text | boxer, when I heard his words and the sound of the cheering;
678 Text | no contradiction in the words of Simonides. And first
679 Text | all unite in examining his words, and see whether I am speaking
680 Text | lunatic, if, in the very first words of the poem, wanting to
681 Text | hostile reference to the words of Pittacus. Pittacus is
682 Text | have been good. Thus the words of the poem tend to show
683 Text | unmingled.’~In these latter words he does not mean to say
684 Text | really made ashamed by these words of Alcibiades, and when
685 Text | Why do you spend many words and speak in many ways on
686 Text | answer in my sense of the words.~Prodicus laughed and assented,
The Republic
Book
687 1 | and furious master. His words have often occurred to my
688 1 | How admirable are his words! And the great blessing
689 1 | still stand by the latter words. ~Well, there is another
690 1 | fallen in the use of the words "friend" and "enemy." ~What
691 1 | was panic-stricken at his words, and could not look at him
692 1 | Socrates; you take the words in the sense which is most
693 1 | that in your definition the words "of the stronger" are added. ~
694 1 | justice. ~Those were not his words, rejoined Polemarchus. ~
695 1 | and unimpaired. Take the words in your precise sense, and
696 1 | deluged our ears with his words, had a mind to go away.
697 1 | unlike? Were not these your words? ~They were. ~And you also
698 2 | SOCRATES, GLAUCON.) ~WITH these words I was thinking that I had
699 2 | suppose, Socrates, that the words which follow are not mine.
700 2 | and not to be, just; the words of AEschylus may be more
701 2 | the path of vice with the words of Hesiod: ~"Vice may be
702 2 | will say to himself in the words of Pindar: ~"Can I by justice
703 2 | disprove the truth of my words, and who is satisfied that
704 2 | been merely repeating, and words even stronger than these
705 2 | Adeimantus, but on hearing these words I was quite delighted, and
706 2 | our young men to hear the words of AEschylus, that ~"God
707 2 | some profound meaning to my words; but I am only saying that
708 2 | true lie; for the lie in words is only a kind of imitation
709 2 | Yes. ~Whereas the lie in words is in certain cases useful
710 3 | shades, and any similar words of which the very mention
711 3 | of a stag," ~and of the words which follow? Would you
712 3 | a young man to hear such words? or the verse ~"The saddest
713 3 | continued in his own person, the words would have been, not imitation,
714 3 | every form of expression in words? No one can say anything
715 3 | ode has three parts-the words, the melody, and the rhythm;
716 3 | you may. ~And as for the words, there will surely be no
717 3 | be no difference between words which are and which are
718 3 | rhythm will depend upon the words? ~Certainly. ~We were saying,
719 3 | the foot and the melody to words having a like spirit, not
720 3 | having a like spirit, not the words to the foot and melody.
721 3 | harmony are regulated by the words, and not the words by them. ~
722 3 | by the words, and not the words by them. ~Just so, he said,
723 3 | they should follow the words. ~And will not the words
724 3 | words. ~And will not the words and the character of the
725 3 | probable, if it did. ~How your words seem to hesitate on your
726 3 | in the face, or in what words to utter the audacious fiction,
727 4 | city: Who, on hearing these words, would choose to fight against
728 4 | education; and I mean by the words "under all circumstances"
729 4 | may, and if you add the words "of a citizen," you will
730 4 | master of itself, if the words "temperance" and "self-mastery"
731 4 | once more appeal to the words of Homer, which have been
732 4 | sustaining the reason with noble words and lessons, and moderating
733 5 | which I only caught the words, "Shall we let him off,
734 5 | what a hornet's nest of words you are stirring. Now I
735 5 | to encourage me by these words. ~Yes, he said. ~Then let
736 5 | not to visit upon me the words which I am going to utter.
737 5 | dishonor; and do you mark my words. ~Proceed. ~I said: "Until
738 6 | in this new game of which words are the counters; and yet
739 6 | might say, that although in words he is not able to meet you
740 6 | said, still, if you leave words and look at facts, the persons
741 6 | public, apply when their words are powerless. ~Indeed they
742 6 | philosophy, consisting of words artificially brought together,
743 6 | strangers, he said, to the words of which you speak. ~And
744 7 | best of being, or, in other words, of the good. ~Very true. ~
745 7 | giving them science; and the words, whether fabulous or possibly
746 7 | with you and will take your words as a revelation; another
747 7 | many and diverse refute his words, until he is driven into
748 8 | things -hearing, too, the words of his father, and having
749 8 | and fair pursuits and true words, which make their abode
750 9 | sense will dispute your words. Come, then, I said, and
751 9 | gods and men"? ~Let the words be added. ~Then this, I
752 9 | argument, we may revert to the words which brought us hither:
753 9 | that he may have his own words presented before his eyes. ~
754 10 | should not like to have my words repeated to the tragedians
755 10 | which even now makes the words falter on my lips, for he
756 10 | manner the poet with his words and phrases may be said
757 10 | and judge only from his words, imagine that if he speaks
758 10 | seductions and make our words his law. ~Yes, he said,
The Second Alcibiades
Part
759 Text | parent.~ALCIBIADES: Good words, Socrates, prithee.~SOCRATES:
760 Text | to bid him use auspicious words, who says that you would
761 Text | it seems to me). (These words are omitted in several MSS.)~
762 Text | it clear to you). (Some words appear to have dropped out
763 Text | pilotless in mid-ocean, and the words will apply to him in which
764 Text | world, Socrates, do the words of the poet apply to him?
765 Text | stands for ‘to know.’ Put the words together;—the metre will
766 Text | And was not the poet whose words I originally quoted wiser
767 Text | Hellenes.”’ Such were the words of the God, and nothing
768 Text | the Gods hear them using words of ill omen they reject
The Seventh Letter
Part
769 Text | and solely a mere man of words, one who would never of
770 Text | enemies, but for want of words and power of persuasion,
771 Text | say so, provided that his words are not likely either to
772 Text | we did not say in plain words, for that would not have
773 Text | third venture abstain from words of ill omen. But, nevertheless,
774 Text | have heard from me in plain words. And whoever among you cannot
775 Text | This he said in these words; the rest it would be tedious
776 Text | were written or put into words, it would be done best by
777 Text | has its existence, not in words nor in bodily shapes, but
778 Text | was made, almost in these words. Well, after this the trading-ships
779 Text | now appeals.” With these words I turned away and went out.
The Sophist
Part
780 Intro| comparison, the danger of putting words in the place of things,
781 Intro| the frequent use of the words ‘essence,’ ‘power,’ ‘generation,’ ‘
782 Intro| dissembler and juggler with words.~The chief points of interest
783 Intro| interesting question:—~Many words are used both in a general
784 Intro| Sophist’ is one of those words of which the meaning has
785 Intro| the god.’ Hence the two words, like the characters represented
786 Intro| divider of the meanings of words, the teacher of rhetoric,
787 Intro| already a bad name; and the words of the young Hippocrates,
788 Intro| Changes in the meaning of words can only be made with great
789 Intro| Socrates, repeating the words—‘I should like to ask our
790 Intro| ears, by the mummery of words, and induce them to believe
791 Intro| that not-being is.’ And the words prove themselves! Not-being
792 Intro| conceived of as a whole—in the words of Parmenides, ‘like every
793 Intro| they cannot help using the words ‘is,’ ‘apart,’ ‘from others,’
794 Intro| is the meaning of these words, ‘same’ and ‘other’? Are
795 Intro| spirit which criticizes the words of another according to
796 Intro| the same question about words which we have already answered
797 Intro| admit of combination? Some words have a meaning when combined,
798 Intro| no meaning. One class of words describes action, another
799 Intro| second. But no combination of words can be formed without a
800 Intro| sentence is composed of two words, and one of these must be
801 Intro| is not true, or, in other words, attributes to you things
802 Intro| not divine / juggling with words / phantastic or unreal /
803 Intro| may truly apply to him the words in which Plato describes
804 Intro| passed away. In his own words, there is an absurdity in
805 Intro| least comprehension. Of all words they may be truly said to
806 Intro| them, as for example the words ‘Being,’ ‘essence,’ ‘matter,’ ‘
807 Intro| from that in which other words have come down to us? Have
808 Intro| common life. He uses a few words only which are borrowed
809 Intro| been,’ the third to the words ‘has been’ and ‘is’ combined.
810 Intro| is’ combined. In other words, the first sphere is immediate,
811 Intro| use of idiomatic German words. But it may be doubted whether
812 Intro| successful. First because such words as ‘in sich seyn,’ ‘an sich
813 Intro| explanation. The simplicity of the words contrasts with the hardness
814 Intro| often seems to trifle with words. He gives etymologies which
815 Intro| Heracliteans of old, have no words in which our meaning can
816 Intro| others quite as much as his words. What is the teaching of
817 Intro| logic. We cannot affirm that words have no meaning when taken
818 Text | And when the war is one of words, it may be termed controversy?~
819 Text | wise particular about fine words, if she may be only allowed
820 Text | They cross-examine a man’s words, when he thinks that he
821 Text | the hearts of young men by words poured through their ears,
822 Text | the consideration of the words themselves?~THEAETETUS:
823 Text | a man either express in words or even conceive in thought
824 Text | in using each of these words in the singular, did I not
825 Text | exists in opinion and in words; for in maintaining this,
826 Text | forgive me, and, as your words imply, not be altogether
827 Text | when he speaks of false words, or false opinion, or idols,
828 Text | are compelled to use the words ‘to be,’ ‘apart,’ ‘from
829 Text | the meaning of these two words, ‘same’ and ‘other’? Are
830 Text | and me, when prefixed to words, do not imply opposition,
831 Text | only difference from the words, or more correctly from
832 Text | things represented by the words, which follow them.~THEAETETUS:
833 Text | his pleasure is to drag words this way and that, the argument
834 Text | understand you to say that words which have a meaning when
835 Text | may be connected, but that words which have no meaning when
836 Text | mean?~STRANGER: I mean that words like ‘walks,’ ‘runs,’ ‘sleeps,’
837 Text | sleeps,’ or any other words which denote action, however
838 Text | horse,’ or any other words which denote agents—neither
839 Text | in this way of stringing words together do you attain to
840 Text | mingled with nouns; then the words fit, and the smallest combination
841 Text | and to this connexion of words we give the name of discourse.~
842 Text | creation, the juggling of words, a creation human, and not
The Statesman
Part
843 Intro| classification, and of not putting words in the place of things.
844 Intro| for example, the turn of words with which the dialogue
845 Intro| not too particular about words you will be all the richer
846 Intro| the same letters in all words? And our enquiry about the
847 Intro| should prove that, if our words had been fewer, they would
848 Intro| may be summed up in the words of the Lysis: ‘If evil were
849 Intro| comparing the letters in words which he knows with the
850 Intro| philosophical disregard of words. The evil of mere verbal
851 Intro| happily indicated than in the words of the Statesman:—‘If you
852 Intro| about things, and less about words, you will be richer in wisdom
853 Intro| Eleatic Stranger in the words—‘The higher ideas can hardly
854 Intro| truly expressed than in the words, —‘The greatest and noblest
855 Intro| reversing the accustomed use of words. The law which to the Greek
856 Intro| necessity and free-will. The words in which he describes the
857 Intro| of his own thoughts and words in an inferior form is characteristic
858 Text | explanation we must translate the words above, ‘freest and airiest
859 Text | due, and with all those words, in short, which denote
860 Text | particular word, or of all words?~YOUNG SOCRATES: Clearly,
861 Text | better knowledge of all words.~STRANGER: And is our enquiry
862 Text | or shall we retract our words?~YOUNG SOCRATES: To what
863 Text | I can explain to you in words the thought which is passing
The Symposium
Part
864 Intro| may often be conveyed in words which could hardly have
865 Intro| compare Protag.), for my words refer to all mankind everywhere.~
866 Intro| for he uses the commonest words as the outward mask of the
867 Intro| difficulty be rendered in any words but the writer’s own. There
868 Intro| world is summed up in the words ‘Great is Socrates’—he has
869 Intro| barbarians. His speech is ‘more words than matter,’ and might
870 Intro| religion in the world has used words or practised rites in one
871 Text | Phalerian (Probably a play of words on (Greek), ‘bald-headed.’)
872 Text | should be the reporter of the words of your friend? And first
873 Text | endeavour to give you the exact words of Aristodemus:~He said
874 Text | is, And Love.’~In other words, after Chaos, the Earth
875 Text | that they are men of few words in those parts, and therefore
876 Text | away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the
877 Text | Heracleitus, although his words are not accurate; for he
878 Text | laughing. I will unsay my words; but do you please not to
879 Text | been describing. But my words have a wider application —
880 Text | beauty of the concluding words—who could listen to them
881 Text | about love, spoken in any words and in any order which may
882 Text | to her in nearly the same words which he used to me, that
883 Text | I was astonished at her words, and said: ‘Is this really
884 Text | but to all of you—were the words of Diotima; and I am persuaded
885 Text | ability now and ever.~The words which I have spoken, you,
886 Text | the same effect with your words only, and do not require
887 Text | fragments of you and your words, even at second-hand, and
888 Text | I granted it.’ To these words he replied in the ironical
889 Text | was smitten, and that the words which I had uttered like
890 Text | not only himself, but his words. For, although I forgot
891 Text | this to you before, his words are like the images of Silenus
892 Text | same things in the same words (compare Gorg.), so that
893 Text | find that they are the only words which have a meaning in
Theaetetus
Part
894 Intro| Amicitia), the interlocutory words are omitted.~Theaetetus,
895 Intro| acceptance of the noble words of Socrates, are noticeable
896 Intro| forgotten in the closing words. At the end of the dialogue,
897 Intro| of the sense in which his words are used. For later writers,
898 Intro| privately to his disciples,’—words which imply that the connexion
899 Intro| instant was to be found in his words. He is only indignant at
900 Intro| century before Christ, had no words for ‘subject’ and ‘object,’
901 Intro| convenience, the interlocutory words, “said I,” “said he”; and
902 Intro| same; the latter has these words—~“Ocean, whence the gods
903 Intro| hear,—e.g. the sound of words or the sight of letters
904 Intro| and in the soul by the words of the Sophist; and the
905 Intro| Theseus mighty in deeds and words has broken my head; but
906 Intro| insists on citing his own words,—‘What appears to each man
907 Intro| asks Socrates, are these words reconcileable with the fact
908 Intro| as ready to receive your words as I am, there would be
909 Intro| that nice distinctions of words are sometimes pedantic,
910 Intro| soul, as I may say in the words of Homer, who played upon
911 Intro| Homer, who played upon the words ker and keros, may be smooth
912 Intro| have been repeating the words ‘know,’ ‘understand,’ yet
913 Intro| We may now examine these words, first, with reference to
914 Intro| to give of these latter words is: ‘Things are to me as
915 Intro| arguing from the common use of words, which ‘the vulgar pervert
916 Intro| degenerated into a mere strife of words. And when thus reduced to
917 Intro| when thus reduced to mere words, they seem to have exercised
918 Intro| them,’ a distinction of words which, as Socrates observes,
919 Intro| of acquiring them, in the words ‘Knowledge consists not
920 Intro| although mere expression in words is not truth. The second
921 Intro| Socrates, that ‘distinctions of words, although sometimes pedantic,
922 Intro| or hearing the sounds of words in a foreign language, and
923 Intro| language.~A profusion of words and ideas has obscured rather
924 Intro| remarks in the Cratylus, words expressive of motion as
925 Intro| indifferently of both; the words intuition, moral sense,
926 Intro| the other. And many other words used in early poetry or
927 Intro| the mind at the thoughts, words, actions of ourselves and
928 Intro| Knowledge of being or essence,’— words to which in our own day
929 Intro| universal in one; or, in other words, a perception and also a
930 Intro| synthesis of sensations, words, conceptions. In seeing
931 Intro| And sometimes by using words as symbols we are able to
932 Intro| pleasures of the body? The words ‘inward and outward,’ ‘active
933 Intro| them without some use of words—some natural or latent logic—
934 Intro| them are apt to be mere words. We are in a country which
935 Intro| which the customary use of words has implanted in us. To
936 Intro| elevated, and the use of many words has been transferred from
937 Intro| the received meaning of words: they have regarded the
938 Intro| science. We cannot say that words always correspond to facts.
939 Intro| when there are two or more words describing faculties or
940 Intro| may be described by the words, ‘I perceive,’ ‘I feel,’ ‘
941 Intro| present to us; in Plato’s words, we set the stamp upon the
942 Intro| series, objects lying near, words having a customary order
943 Intro| it is least obscured by words, least liable to fall under
944 Text | convenience, the interlocutory words ‘I said,’ ‘I remarked,’
945 Text | will have to swear to his words; and we are perfectly sure
946 Text | delivery. And the proof of my words is, that many of them in
947 Text | to avoid entanglements of words. But, O my good sir, he
948 Text | beg you not to press my words in the letter, but to take
949 Text | sophist accomplishes by words the change which the physician
950 Text | customary use of names and words, which the vulgar pervert
951 Text | many a Theseus, mighty in words, has broken my head; nevertheless
952 Text | statement and in the fewest words possible, the basis of agreement.~
953 Text | SOCRATES: In this way:—His words are, ‘What seems to a man,
954 Text | caring not whether his words are many or few; his only
955 Text | lost, and stammering broken words, is laughed at, not by Thracian
956 Text | me, of the truth of your words, there would be more peace
957 Text | after-time; which, in other words, is the future.~THEODORUS:
958 Text | not then hamper them with words expressive of rest.~THEODORUS:
959 Text | doctrine have as yet no words in which to express themselves,
960 Text | we may not understand his words, and may be still further
961 Text | SOCRATES: The free use of words and phrases, rather than
962 Text | other’ are the same (Both words in Greek are called eteron:
963 Text | times have we repeated the words ‘we know,’ and ‘do not know,’
964 Text | moment we are using the words ‘we understand,’ ‘we are
965 Text | possession’ in the same words? I will make my meaning
966 Text | one may twist and turn the words ‘knowing’ and ‘learning’
967 Text | beg you to reconsider your words. Let us grant what you say—
968 Text | rightly attribute to them the words ‘being’ or ‘this,’ because
969 Text | alien and inappropriate words, and for this reason the
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970 Intro| elicit any meaning out of any words. They were really incapable
971 Intro| and confesses that his words partake of the uncertainty
972 Intro| thoughts and almost the words of Parmenides when he discourses
973 Intro| introduction, in which he is using words after his accustomed manner.
974 Intro| imperfectly acquainted, and had no words in which to express his
975 Intro| need of their aid. May my words be acceptable to them, and
976 Intro| and we may assume that words are akin to the matter of
977 Intro| are mistaken, for these words are applicable only to becoming,
978 Intro| stars, and heavens, the words which we have spoken would
979 Intro| by the double meanings of words (Greek), and the accidental
980 Intro| accidental distinctions of words sometimes led the ancient
981 Intro| himself from the influence of words. Nor are there wanting in
982 Intro| that we should regard not words but things (States.). But
983 Intro| subject to the influence of words than the moderns. They had
984 Intro| three, one than two. The words ‘being,’ or ‘unity,’ or
985 Intro| sense the most unmeaning of words. They did not understand
986 Intro| or essence, and similar words, represented to them a supreme
987 Intro| being under the influence of words, do we suppose that we are
988 Intro| general meaning of these words is that God imparted determinations
989 Intro| intelligible meaning to his words when he speaks of the visible
990 Intro| truth in itself.—So far the words of Plato may perhaps find
991 Intro| interpret or put into other words the parable in which Plato
992 Intro| Republic. The meaning of the words that ‘solid bodies are always
993 Intro| two factors, or, in other words, only measurable by unity).
994 Intro| also not to be found in his words; nor (3) is there any evidence
995 Intro| metaphysics. Neither of the Greek words by which it is described
996 Intro| geometrical figures; in other words, we are composing and decomposing
997 Intro| attribute to many of Plato’s words in the Timaeus any more
998 Intro| right to left; or, in other words, the first describing the
999 Intro| contained in the following words:—‘The earth, which is our
1000 Intro| raised as to whether the words ‘artificer of day and night’