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The Apology
Part
1 Intro| ideal rather than a literal truth; much is said which was
2 Intro| proposed has the appearance of truth. More suspicious is the
3 Intro| knows of no rhetoric but truth; he will not falsify his
4 Intro| know that I am speaking the truth, and that Meletus is lying.’~
5 Intro| and of those principles of truth and right which he deemed
6 Text | hardly uttered a word of truth. But of the many falsehoods
7 Text | eloquence they mean the force of truth; for is such is their meaning,
8 Text | have scarcely spoken the truth at all; but from me you
9 Text | you shall hear the whole truth: not, however, delivered
10 Text | good; but think only of the truth of my words, and give heed
11 Text | against me. But the simple truth is, O Athenians, that I
12 Text | present are witnesses to the truth of this, and to them I appeal.
13 Text | be able to judge of the truth of the rest.~As little foundation
14 Text | this accusation has no more truth in it than the other. Although,
15 Text | proud and conceited; but the truth is that I have no knowledge
16 Text | will tell you the entire truth. Men of Athens, this reputation
17 Text | court, will confirm the truth of what I am saying.~Why
18 Text | for I must tell you the truth—the result of my mission
19 Text | almost ashamed to confess the truth, but I must say that there
20 Text | wanting in others: but the truth is, O men of Athens, that
21 Text | knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing. And so I
22 Text | been detected— which is the truth; and as they are numerous
23 Text | O men of Athens, is the truth and the whole truth; I have
24 Text | the truth and the whole truth; I have concealed nothing,
25 Text | proof that I am speaking the truth?—Hence has arisen the prejudice
26 Text | smallest interest. And the truth of this I will endeavour
27 Text | not the exact opposite the truth? One man is able to do them
28 Text | them evil. Now, is that a truth which your superior wisdom
29 Text | little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement
30 Text | sufficient witness to the truth of what I say—my poverty.~
31 Text | offended at my telling you the truth: for the truth is, that
32 Text | telling you the truth: for the truth is, that no man who goes
33 Text | already, Athenians, the whole truth about this matter: they
34 Text | the very opposite is the truth. For all these are ready
35 Text | except for the sake of truth and justice, and because
36 Text | know that I am speaking the truth, and that Meletus is a liar.~
37 Text | their ways condemned by the truth to suffer the penalty of
Charmides
Part
38 PreF | what is the residuum of truth which remains for ourselves.
39 PreF | remains for ourselves. His truth may not be our truth, and
40 PreF | His truth may not be our truth, and nevertheless may have
41 PreS | been affirmed with more truth respecting ancient and modern
42 PreS | Ideas. It might be said with truth that the conception of the
43 Intro| is sometimes nearer the truth than Socrates. Nothing in
44 Intro| at last to unite good and truth in a single science. But
45 Intro| denied that right ideas of truth may contribute greatly to
46 Text | replied, was not far from the truth.~I suppose, he said, that
47 Text | me whether you admit the truth of what Critias has been
48 Text | be able to discover their truth or falsehood; for they are
49 Text | and I am convinced of the truth of the suspicion which I
50 Text | than with him about the truth or falsehood of the definition.~
51 Text | enquire with you into the truth of that which is advanced
52 Text | have been well ordered; for truth guiding, and error having
53 Text | health?~That is nearer the truth, he said.~And that knowledge
54 Text | still unable to discover the truth; but mocks us to a degree,
Cratylus
Part
55 Intro| to any of them, nor the truth wholly the property of any.
56 Intro| the distinction between truth and falsehood. Hermogenes
57 Intro| is inclined to derive all truth from language, and in language
58 Intro| that Plato was aware of the truth, that ‘languages are not
59 Intro| lights by accident on the truth. He is guessing, he is dreaming;
60 Intro| then again allowing the truth to peer through; enjoying
61 Intro| the dialogue: What is the truth, or correctness, or principle
62 Intro| Socrates shows that the truth or correctness of names
63 Intro| appeal to etymology. The truth of names is to be found
64 Intro| disguise, in order that the truth may be permitted to appear:
65 Intro| who cares nothing about truth, but thinks only of putting
66 Intro| consistency is no test of truth:’ or again, ‘If we are over-precise
67 Intro| over-precise about words, truth will say “too late” to us
68 Intro| himself thinks about the truth or correctness of names?
69 Intro| nature of this correctness or truth, you must learn from the
70 Intro| And this is not the only truth about philology which may
71 Intro| original elements, and the truth of such a word must be tested
72 Intro| has cast a veil over the truth. Yet all these are not reasons;
73 Intro| be! Cratylus admits the truth of Socrates’ remark. But
74 Intro| about at night, and that Truth herself may not say to us, ‘
75 Intro| consistency is no test of truth. In geometrical problems,
76 Intro| young, and find out the truth, and when you know come
77 Intro| the greatest and deepest truth of philology; although he
78 Intro| simple and compound words, a truth second only in importance
79 Intro| affirms that language is not truth, or ‘philosophie une langue
80 Intro| whole of language might in truth be said to be a figure of
81 Intro| speech are far nearer the truth than the theories which
82 Intro| the place of another; the truth is that no word is ever
83 Intro| former cannot attain. But the truth seems to be that modern
84 Text | use; but that there is a truth or correctness in them,
85 Text | is your own view of the truth or correctness of names,
86 Text | therefore, I do not know the truth about such matters; I will,
87 Text | SOCRATES: But how about truth, then? you would acknowledge
88 Text | Protagoras is right, and the truth is that things are as they
89 Text | that you have said the truth.~SOCRATES: Does what I am
90 Text | that names have by nature a truth, and that not every man
91 Text | what is the nature of this truth or correctness of names?
92 Text | repudiating Protagoras and his truth (‘Truth’ was the title of
93 Text | Protagoras and his truth (‘Truth’ was the title of the book
94 Text | HERMOGENES: There is a deal of truth in what you say.~SOCRATES:
95 Text | You will recognize the truth of this if you repeat the
96 Text | care for euphony more than truth. There is the other name,
97 Text | powers of divination, and his truth and sincerity, which is
98 Text | sincerity, which is the same as truth, he may be most fitly called
99 Text | Certainly.~SOCRATES: Is not the truth that is in him the smooth
100 Text | desire to know the probable truth about them; they are rightly
101 Text | cares nothing about the truth, but thinks only of putting
102 Text | noblest, such as aletheia (truth) and pseudos (falsehood)
103 Text | elements, must not their truth or law be examined according
104 Text | we have not reached the truth as yet.~HERMOGENES: Why
105 Text | of the Gods, that of the truth about them we know nothing,
106 Text | which we can look for the truth of first names. Deprived
107 Text | no reasons concerning the truth of words. And yet any sort
108 Text | view, Hermogenes, of the truth of names; but I should like
109 Text | really a better theory of the truth of names, you may count
110 Text | assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment
111 Text | some other principle of truth in images, and also in names;
112 Text | and be likewise told by truth herself that we have arrived
113 Text | is to inform: the simple truth is, that he who knows names
114 Text | that he has not missed the truth, and the proof is—that he
115 Text | asserting that they are like the truth, others contending that
116 Text | standard which shows the truth of things.~CRATYLUS: I agree.~
117 Text | whether the image and the truth of which the image is the
118 Text | conceived, or to learn of the truth whether the truth and the
119 Text | of the truth whether the truth and the image of it have
120 Text | that we must learn of the truth.~SOCRATES: How real existence
121 Text | in things, or whether the truth is what Heracleitus and
122 Text | when you have found the truth, come and tell me.~CRATYLUS:
Critias
Part
123 Intro| declaration of Socrates, that the truth of the story is a great
124 Intro| impression that he is telling the truth which mythology had corrupted.~
125 Text | existed; and this proves the truth of what I am saying.~Such
Crito
Part
126 Text | will say, and what the truth will say. And therefore
127 Text | shall we insist on the truth of what was then said, that
Euthydemus
Part
128 Intro| appreciating the nature of truth. Nor should we allow the
129 Intro| conservative and constructive of truth, might be a first and second
130 Text | that which is, says the truth. And therefore Dionysodorus,
131 Text | that which is, says the truth of you and no lie.~Yes,
132 Text | most likely to hear the truth about it from you. The dictum
133 Text | not answer with absolute truth—A knowledge which will do
134 Text | know that you are speak the truth; if you tell us the number,
135 Text | are really speaking the truth, and yet I a little doubt
136 Text | professors of their time. But the truth is, Crito, that the study
137 Text | is more speciousness than truth; they cannot be made to
138 Text | evil could there be any truth in what they say. I do not
139 Text | or partly evil; but the truth is, that these philosopher-politicians
140 Text | if I am to confess the truth, they all seem to be such
Euthyphro
Part
141 Text | will turn out to be the truth. My opinion is that in attacking
142 Text | the nature of right and truth. A man must be an extraordinary
143 Text | proof I will give you of the truth of my words, a proof which
144 Text | that you will prove the truth of your words.~EUTHYPHRO:
145 Text | Ought we to enquire into the truth of this, Euthyphro, or simply
146 Text | EUTHYPHRO: And I speak the truth, Socrates.~SOCRATES: Tell
147 Text | liking for anything but the truth. I wish, however, that you
148 Text | utmost, and tell me the truth. For, if any man knows,
The First Alcibiades
Part
149 Intro| professes to have attained the truth, but the questions which
150 Intro| may still arrive at the truth, if he is willing to be
151 Text | know that I am speaking the truth, will reply, Well, Socrates,
152 Text | that I can prove to you the truth of what I am saying, if
153 Text | discovery of them; whereas, in truth, I learned them in the same
154 Text | when I hear you speak, the truth of what you are saying strikes
155 Text | him always to speak the truth; the third, or most temperate,
156 Text | that the reverse is the truth. (Compare Republic.)~SOCRATES:
Gorgias
Part
157 Intro| generality they have lost in truth and distinctness. Metaphysical
158 Intro| last convinced of their truth; at least, they seem to
159 Intro| partially recognizes the truth of his words.~The Socrates
160 Intro| the Phaedo, on the literal truth of the myth, but only on
161 Intro| courts of justice, where truth depends upon numbers. But
162 Intro| paid for them.~This is the truth, Socrates, as you will be
163 Intro| both agree must be the very truth. Callicles has all the three
164 Intro| enjoyment of all things! For the truth is, Socrates, that luxury
165 Intro| nevertheless is a figure of a truth which I want to make you
166 Intro| to this?~‘There is some truth in what you are saying,
167 Intro| that in some sense or other truth and right are alone to be
168 Intro| the duty of imparting the truth when discovered to others.
169 Intro| judgment according to the truth. Plato may be accused of
170 Intro| pleasure, knowledge and sense, truth and opinion, essence and
171 Intro| pursued without any view to truth, or the improvement of human
172 Intro| professing to have found truth, yet strong in the conviction
173 Intro| which is indeed a partial truth), is similar in both of
174 Intro| that he who speaks the truth to a multitude, regardless
175 Intro| now return to the ideal truth, and draw out in a simple
176 Intro| are slumbering ideals of truth and right, which may at
177 Intro| error or paradox as a half truth, seen first in the twilight
178 Intro| but also the half of the truth which is especially needed
179 Intro| wear the appearance of the truth; some of them are very ancient,
180 Intro| always obscuring our sense of truth and right. The sophistry
181 Intro| begin in the search after truth. On every side he is met
182 Intro| question of humanity or truth or right, even an ordinary
183 Intro| thrice removed from the ideal truth. And in a similar spirit
184 Intro| votary of pleasure and not of truth. In modern times we almost
185 Intro| poetry, as of religion, with truth, may still be possible.
186 Intro| brought out of disorder, truth out of error and falsehood.
187 Intro| the ultimate triumph of truth and right, and declares
188 Intro| in the cause of right or truth is often supposed to die
189 Intro| than he did in the cause of truth or of humanity. Neither,
190 Intro| description of a familiar truth. We have many of us known
191 Intro| company of some god, and seen truth in the form of the universal
192 Intro| consistency of the tale to its truth. The new order of the world
193 Text | have from you, Gorgias, the truth about rhetoric: which you
194 Text | pure love of knowing the truth, I am such a one, and I
195 Text | likely to set forth the truth. And I would have you observe,
196 Text | sake of discovering the truth, but from jealousy of you.
197 Text | rhetorician need not know the truth about things; he has only
198 Text | all, unless he knows the truth of these things first? What
199 Text | discussion, before we get at the truth of all this.~POLUS: And
200 Text | believe that there is any truth in all this?) For will any
201 Text | the nature of justice? The truth is, that there is great
202 Text | Yes.~SOCRATES: To say the truth, Polus, it is not an art
203 Text | SOCRATES: I am afraid that the truth may seem discourteous; and
204 Text | And I should speak the truth; for I do not know how he
205 Text | proof is of no value where truth is the aim; a man may often
206 Text | inheritance, which is the truth. But I consider that nothing
207 Text | for who can refute the truth?~POLUS: What do you mean?
208 Text | one witness only of the truth of my words, and he is the
209 Text | his mouth stopped. For the truth is, Socrates, that you,
210 Text | engaged in the pursuit of truth, are appealing now to the
211 Text | I have at last found the truth indeed. For I consider that
212 Text | they will not tell me the truth, because they have not the
213 Text | the attainment of perfect truth. Now there is no nobler
214 Text | profess to be a votary of the truth, and the truth is this:—
215 Text | votary of the truth, and the truth is this:—that luxury and
216 Text | Socrates, is more like the truth.~SOCRATES: Well, I will
217 Text | that the opposite is the truth?~CALLICLES: You do not convince
218 Text | companion in the search after truth, if you say what is contrary
219 Text | you think that I spoke the truth when I further said to Gorgias
220 Text | for the discovery of the truth is a common good. And now
221 Text | result of the order and truth and art which are imparted
222 Text | seem to you to speak the truth.~CALLICLES: Granted then.~
223 Text | SOCRATES: Well, but if so, the truth is as I have said already,
224 Text | be despised; whereas the truth is, that sophistry is as
225 Text | predicament? If he told the truth he could only say, ‘All
226 Text | for I mean to speak the truth. Homer tells us (Il.), how
227 Text | because he has lived without truth. Him Rhadamanthus beholds,
228 Text | And Homer witnesses to the truth of this; for they are always
229 Text | has lived in holiness and truth; he may have been a private
230 Text | Callicles, am persuaded of the truth of these things, and I consider
231 Text | desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as
Ion
Part
232 Text | man, who only speak the truth. For consider what a very
Laches
Part
233 Intro| preliminary question, the truth is parted between them.
234 Text | own which he can show. The truth is that we are ashamed of
235 Text | concerns. There is much truth in that remark of yours,
236 Text | another time making, in sober truth, an involuntary exhibition
237 Text | there is a great deal of truth in what you say.~SOCRATES:
Laws
Book
238 1 | A God, Stranger; in very truth a, God: among us Cretans
239 1 | I suppose that there is truth, Stranger, in that remark
240 1 | say then?~Athenian. What truth and what justice require
241 1 | you say appears to be the truth; but to be hasty in coming
242 1 | be absolutely sure of the truth of matters concerning which
243 1 | every one will admit the truth of your description.~Megillus.
244 2 | melodies which have a natural truth and correctness without
245 2 | nor again, knowing the truth, ought he through cowardice
246 2 | the poet says, and with truth: I sing not, I care not
247 2 | greatest of evils. For in truth, to have sight, and hearing,
248 2 | To me, dear Cleinias, the truth of what I am saying is as
249 2 | darkness and exhibit the truth; he will persuade the citizens,
250 2 | but voluntarily.~Cleinias. Truth, Stranger, is a noble thing
251 2 | this to be a most certain truth; and the minds of our young
252 2 | Paean to testify to the truth of their words, and will
253 2 | are qualities which the truth gives to it.~Cleinias. Exactly.~
254 2 | generally, would give them truth or rightness.~Cleinias.
255 2 | furnishes no utility or truth or likeness, nor on the
256 2 | judged of by the standard of truth, and by no other whatever.~
257 2 | that which is true; and the truth of imitation consists, as
258 3 | believe that there is any truth in ancient traditions?~Cleinias.
259 3 | what they heard to be very truth and practised it. No one
260 3 | the Graces, they attain truth.~Cleinias. Yes.~Athenian.
261 3 | repelled the invader; for the truth is, that unless the Athenians
262 3 | affirming that music has no truth, and, whether good or bad,
263 4 | which may be said with equal truth of all of them.~Cleinias.
264 4 | tell whether there is more truth in one thing that he has
265 5 | are about to be imposed.~Truth is the beginning of every
266 5 | first a partaker of the truth, that he may live a true
267 5 | soul, as we said, is of a truth deemed by all men the most
268 5 | to prefer himself to the truth. But he who would be a great
269 5 | not despotic power. The truth is, that there are three
270 5 | citizens of wax. There is truth in these objections, and
271 5 | there is a certain degree of truth in your words; but I am
272 6 | division is cured. And the truth of this may be easily proved
273 6 | will not endure to have the truth spoken without raising a
274 7 | the sake of peace; but the truth is, that there neither is,
275 7 | women as to men. Of the truth of this I am persuaded from
276 7 | very certain.~Athenian. The truth, Cleinias, may be expected
277 7 | us as containing the very truth; and may he prosper in his
278 7 | affirm to be indeed the very truth of tragedy. You are poets
279 7 | general, and what is the truth, is disgraceful to every
280 7 | the very opposite is the truth.~Cleinias. What do you mean?~
281 7 | the other stars is not the truth, but the very reverse of
282 7 | the very reverse of the truth. Each of them moves in the
283 9 | the judges of the precise truth, in order that none of the
284 9 | must show the meaning and truth of this statement.~Athenian.
285 9 | what I believe to be the truth would be to me unlawful
286 9 | and better than that the truth about wealth should be spoken
287 9 | naturally apprehend the truth, he would have no need of
288 10 | will be to teach you the truth of these matters.~Cleinias.
289 10 | partial imitations of the truth, having an affinity to one
290 10 | with them. “I admit the truth of what you are saying.”
291 10 | moving power at all, being in truth the change of an inanimate
292 10 | most perfect and absolute truth, when we say that the soul
293 11 | the seller has told the truth beforehand to the buyer.
294 12 | is more than man. For the truth is, that there are many
295 12 | the world, for there is no truth greater and more important
296 12 | time for me to speak the truth in all earnestness.~Cleinias.
297 12 | the laws ought to know the truth about them, and to be able
Lysis
Part
298 Intro| yet only tell us half the truth, and in this particular
299 Intro| like or unlike, is also a truth confirmed by experience.
300 Text | between similars is not the truth, but the very reverse of
301 Text | the very reverse of the truth, and that the most opposed
302 Text | admit that they speak the truth?~We must.~They will then
303 Text | Why really, I said, the truth is that I do not know; but
304 Text | valued by us, that is not the truth; for there is a further
305 Text | suppose so.~May not the truth be rather, as we were saying
Meno
Part
306 Intro| morality, is not far from the truth. But the objection is urged, ‘
307 Intro| previous Dialogues. But the new truth is no sooner found than
308 Intro| philosopher had the same truth latent in his mind when
309 Intro| slave-boy the mathematical truth which is latent in him,
310 Intro| regardless of the historical truth of the characters of his
311 Intro| we approach nearest, the truth doubles upon us and passes
312 Intro| formula as the following: ‘Truth consists not in particulars,
313 Intro| only, in relation to the truth.’ These unmeaning propositions
314 Intro| exempts the difference between truth and appearance, of which
315 Intro| metaphysical conception of truth passes into a psychological
316 Intro| be made to recognize the truth, for which he has contended
317 Intro| independently the enquiry into all truth, were unconscious. They
318 Intro| consciousness of necessity. Truth, he says, is the direction
319 Intro| subject; while absolute truth is reduced to a figment,
320 Text | should have told him the truth. And if he were a philosopher
321 Text | should not only speak the truth, but I should make use of
322 Text | That appears to be the truth, Socrates, and I admit that
323 Text | They spoke of a glorious truth, as I conceive.~MENO: What
324 Text | to the discovery of the truth; and now he will wish to
325 Text | Obviously.~SOCRATES: And if the truth of all things always existed
326 Text | a guide if he thinks the truth, as he who knows the truth?~
327 Text | truth, as he who knows the truth?~MENO: Exactly.~SOCRATES:
328 Text | seems to be very like the truth.~SOCRATES: I too speak rather
329 Text | shall never know the certain truth until, before asking how
Parmenides
Part
330 Intro| in the same form. For the truth is, that the Platonic Ideas
331 Intro| corresponds to absolute truth and being, and particular
332 Intro| knowledge to particular truth and being.’ Clearly.’ ‘And
333 Intro| knowledge which is of subjective truth, having many kinds, general
334 Intro| dialectic while you are young, truth will elude your grasp.’ ‘
335 Intro| the intelligence of the truth.’ ‘What you are suggesting
336 Intro| Neither realism is the truth, nor nominalism is the truth,
337 Intro| truth, nor nominalism is the truth, but conceptualism; and
338 Intro| Parmenides with another truth or half-truth of later philosophy, ‘
339 Intro| great though unconscious truth (shall we say?) or error,
340 Intro| the chasm between human truth and absolute truth, between
341 Intro| human truth and absolute truth, between gods and men? This
342 Intro| have any criterion of a truth beyond and independent of
343 Intro| anticipation of a great truth or error, exercised a wonderful
344 Intro| the best expression of a truth higher than either (compare
345 Intro| the impossibility of any truth. But this is not the spirit
346 Intro| more precise attainment of truth. The same remark applies
347 Intro| in other. And if there is truth in what has preceded, one
348 Intro| attributes or qualities. The truth seems to be rather the opposite
349 Intro| critics or diviners’ of the truth of his own, and of the Eleatic
350 Intro| unmeaning conclusion. But the truth is, that he is carrying
351 Intro| which end in nothing. But in truth he is trying to get rid
352 Intro| with Bacon, ‘Let us make truth by experiment,’ or ‘From
353 Intro| writers who profess to base truth entirely upon fact. In an
354 Text | deceiving the world. The truth is, that these writings
355 Text | knowledge—answer to absolute truth?~Certainly.~And each kind
356 Text | have, will answer to the truth which we have; and again,
357 Text | now that you are young, or truth will elude your grasp.~And
358 Text | perfectly and see the real truth.~That, Parmenides, is a
359 Text | which the mind can attain truth and wisdom. And therefore,
360 Text | we should not speak the truth in saying that the one is
361 Text | not. But if we speak the truth, clearly we must say what
362 Text | affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or
Phaedo
Part
363 Intro| and run away—this is the truth in a ‘mystery.’ Or (2) rather,
364 Intro| only to behold the light of truth. All the evils and impurities
365 Intro| she behold the light of truth.~Simmias and Cebes remain
366 Intro| cowardice in not probing truth to the bottom. ‘And if truth
367 Intro| truth to the bottom. ‘And if truth divine and inspired is not
368 Intro| The want of health and truth is not in the argument,
369 Intro| great an interest in the truth of the argument. And therefore
370 Intro| farthing?’ etc.), but the truth is that we are only filling
371 Intro| has the consciousness of truth and justice and love, which
372 Intro| he is justice, that he is truth, that he is love, that he
373 Intro| or unconsciously, of that truth and justice and love which
374 Intro| the ideas of justice and truth and holiness and love are
375 Intro| brief season of the Divine truth and love, in which like
376 Intro| is always mistaking the truth of the form for the truth
377 Intro| truth of the form for the truth of the matter. It is easy
378 Intro| his mind the reality, the truth, the principle of permanence,
379 Intro| certain of our ideas of truth and right than we are of
380 Intro| The existence of right and truth is the existence of God,
381 Intro| play of words only. But the truth is, that Plato in his argument
382 Intro| insists on the absolute truth of his own particular notions: ‘
383 Intro| results, and of a moral truth, which remained unshaken
384 Text | he replied, what is the truth—that I had no idea of rivalling
385 Text | Cebes, there seems to be truth in what you say. And yet
386 Text | have sight and hearing any truth in them? Are they not, as
387 Text | when does the soul attain truth?—for in attempting to consider
388 Text | clearness searches into the very truth of each; he who has got
389 Text | hinder her from acquiring truth and knowledge—who, if not
390 Text | you say has a wonderful truth in it, Socrates, replied
391 Text | and our desire is of the truth. For the body is a source
392 Text | prevented from seeing the truth. It has been proved to us
393 Text | other than the light of truth.’ For the impure are not
394 Text | any freedom or health or truth in her; but in the true
395 Text | dear Simmias and Cebes. The truth rather is, that the soul
396 Text | led to believe that the truth only exists in a bodily
397 Text | discover, or be taught the truth about them; or, if this
398 Text | assent to them, if there is truth in what they say, or if
399 Text | talking nonsense. For the truth is, that the weaver aforesaid,
400 Text | there be such a thing as truth or certainty or possibility
401 Text | and revile them, and lose truth and the knowledge of realities.~
402 Text | well to be persuaded of the truth, but if there be nothing
403 Text | you to be thinking of the truth and not of Socrates: agree
404 Text | to you to be speaking the truth; or if not, withstand me
405 Text | mind and seek there the truth of existence. I dare say
406 Text | equally safe, of which the truth will be inferred by you
407 Text | Glaucus could prove the truth of my tale, which I myself
408 Text | courage, and nobility, and truth—in these adorned she is
Phaedrus
Part
409 Intro| away and leave the plain of truth. But if the soul has followed
410 Intro| her god and once beheld truth she is preserved from harm,
411 Intro| following, and always seeing the truth, is then for ever unharmed.
412 Intro| which has seen most of the truth passes into a philosopher
413 Intro| lover; that which has seen truth in the second degree, into
414 Intro| soul which has once seen truth and acquired some conception
415 Intro| wisdom and temperance and truth which she once gazed upon
416 Intro| is to know and speak the truth; as a Spartan proverb says, ‘
417 Intro| proverb says, ‘true art is truth’; whereas rhetoric is an
418 Intro| is not wholly devoid of truth. Superior knowledge enables
419 Intro| in rhetoric an element of truth is required. For if we do
420 Intro| For if we do not know the truth, we can neither make the
421 Intro| gradual departures from truth by which men are most easily
422 Intro| probability to be stronger than truth. But we maintain that probability
423 Intro| engendered by likeness of the truth which can only be attained
424 Intro| that until a man knows the truth, and the manner of adapting
425 Intro| the manner of adapting the truth to the natures of other
426 Intro| principles of justice and truth when delivered by word of
427 Intro| love or rhetoric. But the truth is that Plato subjects himself
428 Intro| persuasion nor knowledge of the truth alone, but the art of persuasion
429 Intro| founded on knowledge of truth and knowledge of character;
430 Intro| Lysias there is a germ of truth, and this is further developed
431 Intro| express an aspect of the truth. To understand him, we must
432 Intro| justice and holiness and truth, but renewing them at the
433 Intro| justice and holiness and truth, not according to the imperfect
434 Intro| house of the goddess of truth.~The triple soul has had
435 Intro| imperfectly the vision of absolute truth. All her after existence,
436 Intro| abstract; in that, all good and truth, all the hopes of this and
437 Intro| hint at a psychological truth.~It is difficult to exhaust
438 Intro| substance but the shadow of the truth which is in heaven. There
439 Intro| without a knowledge of the truth; and secondly, as ignoring
440 Intro| the expression of mind and truth with Art the composition
441 Intro| speaking unconnected with the truth’? There is another text
442 Intro| avowedly follow not the truth but the will of the many (
443 Intro| have no knowledge of the truth, but only of what is likely
444 Intro| praising God ‘without regard to truth and falsehood, attributing
445 Intro| judgment’ and not for the truth or ‘God’s judgment.’ What
446 Intro| whether we ‘care more for the truth of religion, or for the
447 Intro| the country from which the truth comes’? or, whether the ‘
448 Intro| there is also contained a truth; they may be compared with
449 Intro| book, or the epistle, the truth embodied in a person, the
450 Intro| careless he is of historical truth or probability. Who would
451 Intro| seems to have glimpses of a truth beyond.~Two short passages,
452 Intro| tested by any criterion of truth, or used to establish any
453 Intro| or used to establish any truth; they add nothing to the
454 Intro| relation to fact, or to truth of any kind. It is antipathetic
455 Intro| the ways of simplicity and truth, and how ignorant of the
456 Intro| say, or any conviction of truth. The age had no remembrance
457 Intro| understand the whereabouts of truth, and therefore there may
458 Text | the courage to confess the truth, and not knowing how to
459 Text | was refreshing; having no truth or honesty in them, nevertheless
460 Text | is that word of mine—the truth is that thou didst not embark
461 Text | and try to ascertain the truth about them. The beginning
462 Text | I must dare to speak the truth, when truth is my theme.
463 Text | to speak the truth, when truth is my theme. There abides
464 Text | and once more gazing upon truth, is replenished and made
465 Text | eagerness to behold the plain of truth is that pasturage is found
466 Text | which attains any vision of truth in company with a god is
467 Text | and fails to behold the truth, and through some ill-hap
468 Text | soul which has seen most of truth shall come to the birth
469 Text | nature; that which has seen truth in the second degree shall
470 Text | never lost the vision of truth.) receive judgment when
471 Text | which has never seen the truth will not pass into the human
472 Text | of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which
473 Text | persuasion, and not from the truth.~SOCRATES: The words of
474 Text | speak in ignorance of the truth! Whatever my advice may
475 Text | told him to arrive at the truth first, and then come to
476 Text | that mere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art
477 Text | which is divorced from the truth.~PHAEDRUS: And what are
478 Text | the gradual departure from truth into the opposite of truth
479 Text | truth into the opposite of truth which is effected by the
480 Text | who being ignorant of the truth aims at appearances, will
481 Text | the speaker who knows the truth may, without any serious
482 Text | probability is superior to truth, and who by force of argument
483 Text | SOCRATES: Then consider what truth as well as Hippocrates says
484 Text | rhetorician has no need of truth—for that in courts of law
485 Text | literally care nothing about truth, but only about conviction:
486 Text | and say good-bye to the truth. And the observance of this
487 Text | many by the likeness of the truth, and we had just been affirming
488 Text | affirming that he who knew the truth would always know best how
489 Text | the resemblances of the truth. If he has anything else
490 Text | although if we had found the truth ourselves, do you think
491 Text | give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance
492 Text | but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of
493 Text | deemed that if they heard the truth even from ‘oak or rock,’
494 Text | themselves nor teach the truth adequately to others?~PHAEDRUS:
495 Text | SOCRATES: Until a man knows the truth of the several particulars
496 Text | from the reality, cannot in truth be otherwise than disgraceful
497 Text | based on knowledge of the truth, and they can defend or
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498 Intro| Phaedrus he conveys the same truth in a figure, when he speaks
499 Intro| perhaps, more metaphysical truth more obscurely expressed
500 Intro| goodness—beauty, symmetry, truth. These are clearly more