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(...) Philebus
Part
501 Intro| dividing more and more; every truth is at first the enemy of
502 Intro| the enemy of every other truth. Yet without this division
503 Intro| division there can be no truth; nor any complete truth
504 Intro| truth; nor any complete truth without the reunion of the
505 Intro| divided elements of the truth. Without entering further
506 Intro| and empty vessel. But the truth is rather, that while the
507 Intro| abstraction the greater the truth, and he is always tending
508 Intro| reason seeking to attain truth by the aid of dialectic;
509 Intro| doctrines, and seeking to find a truth beyond either Being or number;
510 Intro| Eristics as destructive of truth, as he had formerly fought
511 Intro| either, but to the degree of truth which they attain—here Gorgias
512 Intro| sensible world. But the highest truth is that which is eternal
513 Intro| have the most of purity and truth; to admit them all indiscriminately
514 Intro| virtue. But still we want truth? That is now added; and
515 Intro| are three chief elements—truth, symmetry, and beauty. These
516 Intro| has the greater share of truth? Surely wisdom; for pleasure
517 Intro| some pleasures partake of truth and Being?’ To these ancient
518 Intro| all his life long for a truth which will hereafter be
519 Intro| what appears to be the truth about the origin of our
520 Intro| desire of good, some sense of truth, some fear of the law. Of
521 Intro| thou shalt speak the truth,’ ‘thou shalt love thy parents,’ ‘
522 Intro| necessity of some degree of truth and justice in a social
523 Intro| one of them is the whole truth. But to decide how far our
524 Intro| acknowledges a universal good, truth, right; which is capable
525 Intro| limitations to which his truth is subjected; he does not
526 Intro| or how that which is a truth to him is a truism to the
527 Intro| a valuable aspect of the truth. The systems of all philosophers
528 Intro| on the verge of a great truth, we have gained only a truism.~
529 Intro| morality. Words such as truth, justice, honesty, virtue,
530 Intro| like him stand fast in the truth. To promote their happiness
531 Intro| certain aspect of moral truth. None of them are, or indeed
532 Intro| attracted by one aspect of the truth, some by another. The firm
533 Intro| relief some part of the truth which would have been obscure
534 Intro| we should view the same truth under more than one aspect.~
535 Intro| posterity with aspects of the truth and with instruments of
536 Intro| but for the sake of the truth: neither will the soldier
537 Intro| justice, love, wisdom, truth; these are to God, in whom
538 Intro| with our highest ideas of truth and right there can never
539 Intro| and faculty of loving the truth, and of doing all things
540 Intro| things for the sake of the truth’: or, again, the singular
541 Text | field.~SOCRATES: Surely the truth about these matters ought,
542 Text | us to be fighting for the truth.~PROTARCHUS: Certainly we
543 Text | excellent way of arriving at the truth? If there is, we hope that
544 Text | seems to be very near the truth, Socrates. Happy would the
545 Text | certainly has the look of truth, Socrates; but these subjects,
546 Text | what you say has a general truth.~SOCRATES: Here then is
547 Text | Shall we enquire into the truth of your opinion?~PROTARCHUS:
548 Text | mean that opinion admits of truth and falsehood, and hence
549 Text | is the very opposite of truth; for no one would call pleasures
550 Text | diviners, who divine the truth, not by rules of art, but
551 Text | may be reckoned, and in truth is, ridiculous.~PROTARCHUS:
552 Text | acknowledged as a general truth that the body without the
553 Text | do these terms stand to truth?~PROTARCHUS: Why do you
554 Text | superior in accuracy and truth.~SOCRATES: Then this is
555 Text | and the greatest amount of truth, however humble and little
556 Text | particular of essential truth; as in the comparison of
557 Text | was said to be superior in truth to a great mass which is
558 Text | the soul has of loving the truth, and of doing all things
559 Text | has a firmer grasp of the truth than this.~SOCRATES: Do
560 Text | judged by the strict rule of truth ever become certain?~PROTARCHUS:
561 Text | do not attain the highest truth?~PROTARCHUS: I should imagine
562 Text | judged by the standard of truth, the latter, as we thought,
563 Text | class which have the most of truth, will not the union suffice
564 Text | is that?~SOCRATES: Unless truth enter into the composition,
565 Text | SOCRATES: Also we said that truth was to form an element in
566 Text | prey; Beauty, Symmetry, Truth are the three, and these
567 Text | are speaking of beauty, truth, and measure?~SOCRATES:
568 Text | SOCRATES: Yes, Protarchus, take truth first, and, after passing
569 Text | passing in review mind, truth, pleasure, pause awhile
570 Text | or mind is more akin to truth.~PROTARCHUS: There is no
571 Text | mind is either the same as truth, or the most like truth,
572 Text | truth, or the most like truth, and the truest.~SOCRATES:
573 Text | Socrates, we tell you that the truth of what you have been saying
Protagoras
Part
574 Intro| disinterested love of the truth, and remarks on the singular
575 Intro| his mode of revealing the truth is by lights and shadows,
576 Intro| There is quite as much truth on the side of Protagoras
577 Intro| as of Socrates; but the truth of Protagoras is based on
578 Intro| moments or aspects of the truth by the help of which we
579 Intro| Socrates and Plato outstep the truth—they make a part of virtue
580 Intro| of men and aspects of the truth, especially of the popular
581 Intro| This is an aspect of the truth which was lost almost as
582 Text | Socrates, to confess the truth, I am.~But you should not
583 Text | publicly forward and tells the truth about his dishonesty, then,
584 Text | At length, when the truth dawned upon me, that he
585 Text | not help acknowledging the truth of what he said, Socrates.~
586 Text | request, if I could. But the truth is that I cannot. And what
587 Text | cheering; and to confess the truth, I wanted to get time to
588 Text | whether I am speaking the truth. Simonides must have been
589 Text | putting on the appearance of truth, you are speaking falsely
590 Text | another and make proof of the truth in conversation. If you
591 Text | appearances, and, showing the truth, would fain teach the soul
592 Text | last to find rest in the truth, and would thus save our
593 Text | think that I am speaking the truth or not?~They all thought
The Republic
Book
594 1 | master only, but of many. The truth is, Socrates, that these
595 1 | what is it?-to speak the truth and to pay your debts-no
596 1 | ought always to speak the truth to one who is in his condition. ~
597 1 | then, I said, speaking the truth and paying your debts is
598 1 | appears to me to be the truth. ~But ought the just to
599 1 | our utmost to get at the truth? Nay, my good friend, we
600 1 | what you are saying is the truth. Now we are both agreed
601 1 | respective arts. But the truth is, that while the art of
602 1 | That, as I believe, is the truth of the matter, and not what
603 2 | discussion; but the end, in truth, proved to be only a beginning.
604 2 | appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness,
605 2 | is able to disprove the truth of my words, and who is
606 2 | wanted to arrive at the truth, first, about the nature
607 2 | but I quite recognize the truth of your remark. ~And surely
608 2 | not wholly destitute of truth, are in the main fictitious;
609 2 | speaking-because we do not know the truth about ancient times, we
610 2 | make falsehood as much like truth as we can, and so turn it
611 3 | them is certain. ~Again, truth should be highly valued;
612 3 | gymnasium not to speak the truth about his own bodily illnesses
613 3 | contending. ~I grant the truth of your inference. ~That
614 3 | whenever he is deprived of a truth. ~I understand, he said,
615 3 | Is not to have lost the truth an evil, and to possess
616 3 | evil, and to possess the truth a good? and you would agree
617 3 | they are is to possess the truth? ~Yes, he replied; I agree
618 3 | mankind are deprived of truth against their will. ~And
619 4 | But if the latter be the truth, then the guardians and
620 4 | telling them what is the truth: Silver and gold we neither
621 4 | appearance, but in deed and truth, though she number not more
622 4 | enemy who tells them the truth, which is simply that, unless
623 4 | money, which may, with equal truth, be attributed to the Phoenicians
624 4 | is a further proof of the truth of what you are saying.
625 4 | instances will satisfy us of the truth of what I am saying. ~What
626 4 | You have said the exact truth, Socrates. ~Very good; and
627 4 | at which we may see the truth in the clearest manner with
628 5 | talking about. To declare the truth about matters of high interest
629 5 | but that I shall miss the truth where I have most need to
630 5 | pugnaciously insist upon the verbal truth, that different natures
631 5 | he replied. ~That is the truth, I said. But if, at your
632 5 | things, fall short of the truth? What do you say? ~I agree. ~
633 5 | lovers of the vision of truth. ~That is also good, he
634 5 | But those who love the truth in each thing are to be
635 6 | to look at the absolute truth and to that original to
636 6 | virtue, also know the very truth of each thing? ~There can
637 6 | and they will love the truth. ~Yes, that may be safely
638 6 | more akin to wisdom than truth? ~How can there be? ~Can
639 6 | in him lies, desire all truth? ~Assuredly. ~But then again,
640 6 | Undoubtedly. ~And do you consider truth to be akin to proportion
641 6 | gracious, the friend of truth, justice, courage, temperance,
642 6 | saying told a lie-but the truth is, that, when a man is
643 6 | gentle and noble nature. Truth, as you will remember, was
644 6 | having begotten mind and truth, he will have knowledge
645 6 | lie? ~He will. ~And when truth is the captain, we cannot
646 6 | mean about them. ~Grasp the truth as a whole, I said, and
647 6 | hear. ~You recognize the truth of what I have been saying?
648 6 | will be seen that she is in truth divine, and that all other
649 6 | their power seeking after truth for the sake of knowledge,
650 6 | this was the reason why truth forced us to admit, not
651 6 | saying about him is the truth, will they be angry with
652 6 | philosopher is a lover of truth and being? ~They would not
653 6 | gave us a fair measure of truth. ~But, my friend, I said,
654 6 | falls short of the whole truth is not fair measure; for
655 6 | resting upon that on which truth and being shine, the soul
656 6 | Now, that which imparts truth to the known and the power
657 6 | cause of science, and of truth in so far as the latter
658 6 | beautiful too, as are both truth and knowledge, you will
659 6 | other sphere, science and truth may be deemed to be like
660 6 | the author of science and truth, and yet surpasses them
661 6 | have different degrees of truth, and that the copy is to
662 6 | that their objects have truth. ~I understand, he replied,
663 7 | replied. ~To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing
664 7 | immediate source of reason and truth in the intellectual; and
665 7 | is looking away from the truth? ~Yes, he said, such an
666 7 | them would have seen the truth as keenly as they see what
667 7 | uneducated and uninformed of the truth, nor yet those who never
668 7 | and just and good in their truth. And thus our State, which
669 7 | great good. Whereas the truth is that the State in which
670 7 | to lead the mind toward truth? ~Yes, in a very remarkable
671 7 | to pass from becoming to truth and being. ~That is excellent,
672 7 | in the attainment of pure truth? ~Yes; that is a marked
673 7 | will draw the soul toward truth, and create the spirit of
674 7 | eyes, for by it alone is truth seen. Now there are two
675 7 | the true double, or the truth of any other proportion. ~
676 7 | investigating their exact truth. ~I quite agree, though
677 7 | image only, but the absolute truth, according to my notion.
678 7 | opinion, but to absolute truth, never faltering at any
679 7 | Certainly, he said. ~And as to truth, I said, is not a soul equally
680 7 | senses, and in company with truth to attain absolute being:
681 7 | while he is ignorant of the truth he will be likely to honor
682 7 | dialectician who is seeking for truth, and not the eristic, who
683 8 | ruling body, although in truth he was neither ruler nor
684 8 | overmasters democracy-the truth being that the excessive
685 8 | them. ~That is exactly the truth. ~Then come impeachments
686 9 | as you know, he attains truth most nearly, and is least
687 9 | is wholly directed to the truth, and cares less than either
688 9 | pleasure of knowing the truth, and in that pursuit abiding,
689 9 | the nature of essential truth, greater experience of the
690 9 | of learning and knowing truth. ~Then the lover of wisdom
691 9 | are inexperienced in the truth, as they have wrong ideas
692 9 | the same degree. ~And of truth in the same degree? ~Yes. ~
693 9 | that which has less of truth will also have less of essence? ~
694 9 | of the body have less of truth and essence than those which
695 9 | the body itself less of truth and essence than the soul? ~
696 9 | Troy, in ignorance of the truth. ~Something of that sort
697 9 | inasmuch as they follow truth; and they will have the
698 9 | Yes. ~And if there is truth in what has preceded, he
699 9 | is thrice removed as to truth from the pleasure of the
700 9 | parted from the tyrant in truth of pleasure, he will find
701 9 | is right and speaks the truth, and the disapprover is
702 10 | reverenced more than the truth, and therefore I will speak
703 10 | supposed to be speaking the truth. ~At any rate, he replied,
704 10 | he was not speaking the truth. ~No wonder, then, that
705 10 | indistinct expression of truth. ~No wonder. ~Suppose now
706 10 | from the king and from the truth? ~That appears to be so. ~
707 10 | said, is a long way off the truth, and can do all things because
708 10 | thrice removed from the truth, and could easily be made
709 10 | without any knowledge of the truth, because they are appearances
710 10 | in the second remove from truth in what you say of virtue,
711 10 | virtue and the like, but the truth they never reach? The poet
712 10 | excellence or beauty or truth of every structure, animate
713 10 | thrice removed from the truth? ~Certainly. ~And what is
714 10 | work, are far removed from truth, and the companions and
715 10 | very far removed from the truth. ~Exactly. ~But we have
716 10 | that account betray the truth. I dare say, Glaucon, that
717 10 | seriously as attaining to the truth; and he who listens to her,
718 10 | suspect the opposite to be the truth, and that injustice which,
719 10 | far, we have spoken the truth concerning her as she appears
720 10 | below an adamantine faith in truth and right, that there too
The Second Alcibiades
Part
721 Text | was really speaking the truth when I affirmed that the
The Seventh Letter
Part
722 Text | comradeship with Dion, who in very truth was in a position of considerable
723 Text | attachment? I must tell the truth. As time went on, and as
724 Text | it.~And we should in very truth always believe those ancient
725 Text | right for me to speak the truth, and make no complaint if
726 Text | accustomed even to search for the truth, but are satisfied with
727 Text | ever learn to the full the truth about virtue and vice. For
The Sophist
Part
728 Intro| connexion of ideas, was making truth and falsehood equally impossible.
729 Intro| To all these processes of truth and error, Aristotle, in
730 Intro| the world as the hater of truth and lover of appearance,
731 Intro| disinterested seeker after truth, the master of repartee
732 Intro| Sophist’ in modern times. The truth is, that we know little
733 Intro| mind by which scientific truth is detected and verified.
734 Intro| will carve the limbs of truth without mangling them; and
735 Intro| better image of nature or truth, as an organic whole, can
736 Intro| will guide men into all truth.~Plato does not really mean
737 Intro| any other thing, how could truth be distinguished from falsehood?
738 Intro| justice to Plato,—because the truth which he attains by a real
739 Intro| still at a distance from the truth, not through their eyes,
740 Intro| Sophist.~Agreeing in the truth of the third hypothesis,
741 Intro| was no distinction between truth and falsehood, between the
742 Intro| themselves and that the truth of their existence shall
743 Intro| matter but mind to be the truth of things, and this not
744 Intro| us live in the one-sided truth which the understanding
745 Intro| Yet, as everybody knows, truth is not wholly the possession
746 Intro| this or that aspect of the truth. The understanding is strong
747 Intro| goodness from the love of truth, to worship God without
748 Intro| make an approach to the truth. Many a man has become a
749 Intro| is inclined to deny the truth of infinitesimals in mathematics.
750 Intro| attributes of wisdom, goodness, truth.~The system of Hegel frees
751 Intro| to him to be a necessary truth. He never appears to have
752 Intro| priori and a posteriori truth. It also acknowledges that
753 Text | a mind which is bent on truth, and in which the process
754 Text | doubt how I can with any truth or confidence describe the
755 Text | things, which is not the truth?~THEAETETUS: Exactly; no
756 Text | still at a distance from the truth of facts, by exhibiting
757 Text | experience to see and feel the truth of things, are not the greater
758 Text | bring you as near to the truth as we can without the sad
759 Text | and so they give up the truth in their images and make
760 Text | thinks the opposite of the truth:—You would assent?~THEAETETUS:
761 Text | Whether any of them spoke the truth in all this is hard to determine;
762 Text | maintained to be the very truth, they break up into little
763 Text | persons, but seekers after truth.~THEAETETUS: Very good.~
764 Text | STRANGER: They deny the truth of what we were just now
765 Text | THEAETETUS: And is there not some truth in what they say?~STRANGER:
766 Text | THEAETETUS: That is very much the truth.~STRANGER: Where, then,
767 Text | That is not far from the truth.~STRANGER: And we must not
768 Text | Stranger, there appears to be truth in what was said about the
769 Text | falsehood as well as of truth?~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
770 Text | lineage will say the very truth.~THEAETETUS: Undoubtedly.~
The Statesman
Part
771 Intro| in men’s minds a sense of truth and justice, which is the
772 Intro| another in another. But the truth is, that there are two cycles
773 Intro| which you speak?’ No higher truth can be made clear without
774 Intro| demonstration of absolute truth.~We may now divide this
775 Intro| found enquiring into the truth of navigation and medicine,
776 Intro| express testimony to the truth of his narrative;—such testimony
777 Intro| consistency in error as well as in truth. The gravity and minuteness
778 Intro| insist upon their literal truth. Rather, as in the Phaedo,
779 Intro| pictures is natural to man: truth in the abstract is hardly
780 Intro| think of God as wisdom, truth, holiness, and also as the
781 Intro| themselves. There is a one-sided truth in these answers, if they
782 Intro| dialectic only, to arrive at truth. He is deeply impressed
783 Text | clearer evidence of the truth of what was said in the
784 Text | this was not the whole truth, nor very intelligible;
785 Text | cases is firmly fixed by the truth in each particular, and
786 Text | even at a small portion of truth and to attain wisdom?~YOUNG
787 Text | demonstration of absolute truth; meanwhile, the argument
788 Text | capable of expressing the truth of things; about any other
789 Text | they would imitate the truth, and they would always imitate
790 Text | imitation would be the perfect truth, and an imitation no longer.~
791 Text | soul when attaining this truth becomes civilized, and rendered
The Symposium
Part
792 Intro| aspired only to see reasoned truth, and whose thoughts are
793 Intro| personal remarks are made. The truth is that some of these loves
794 Intro| is willing to speak the truth, and proposes to begin by
795 Intro| to the highest vision of truth at the other. In an age
796 Intro| amazement. The unity of truth, the consistency of the
797 Intro| dialectical, but glimpses of truth appear in them. When Eryximachus
798 Intro| Greek history confirms the truth of his remark. When Aristophanes
799 Intro| mingle jest and earnest, truth and opinion in the same
800 Intro| is allowed to speak the truth. We may note also the touch
801 Intro| that you should speak the truth about them—this is the sort
802 Intro| extraction. She elicits the final truth from one who knows nothing,
803 Intro| speaking anything but the truth, and if he is to speak the
804 Intro| and if he is to speak the truth of Love he must honestly
805 Intro| generation—in whom the light of truth may not lack the warmth
806 Intro| is love’; under another, ‘truth.’ In both the lover of wisdom
807 Text | asked Socrates about the truth of some parts of his narrative,
808 Text | was saying at first, the truth as I imagine is, that whether
809 Text | is a great proof of the truth of what I am saving. When
810 Text | softest of all things? Of a truth he is the tenderest as well
811 Text | or not, without regard to truth or falsehood—that was no
812 Text | if you like to hear the truth about love, I am ready to
813 Text | you would like to have the truth about love, spoken in any
814 Text | that you cannot refute the truth; for Socrates is easily
815 Text | can ignorance attain the truth), but is clearly something
816 Text | ignorance and knowledge. The truth of the matter is this: No
817 Text | she said, ‘the simple truth is, that men love the good.’ ‘
818 Text | I am persuaded of their truth. And being persuaded of
819 Text | well that I am speaking the truth, although you may laugh.
820 Text | I am going to speak the truth, if you will permit me.~
821 Text | exhort you to speak the truth.~Then I will begin at once,
822 Text | intention is to speak the truth. But you must not wonder
823 Text | of him, but only for the truth’s sake. I say, that he is
824 Text | I will confess the whole truth, and beg you to listen;
Theaetetus
Part
825 Intro| the work of Protagoras on ‘Truth’ we know nothing, with the
826 Intro| remark, that Plato had ‘The Truth’ of Protagoras before him,
827 Intro| found; ‘he told the real truth’ (not in the book, which
828 Intro| apt to imagine that the truth is only spoken by Socrates,
829 Intro| possession of the whole truth. Arguments are often put
830 Intro| but in other dialogues truth is divided, as in the Laches
831 Intro| knowledge which have germs of truth in them; as, for example, ‘
832 Intro| with him; and, to say the truth, he is very like you, for
833 Intro| allow me to dissemble the truth. Once more then, Theaetetus,
834 Intro| you and me; he told “the truth” (in allusion to the title
835 Intro| book, which was called “The Truth”) in secret to his disciples.
836 Intro| begin his great work on Truth with a declaration that
837 Intro| enormous folly, if Protagoras’ “Truth” be indeed truth, and the
838 Intro| Protagoras’ “Truth” be indeed truth, and the philosopher is
839 Intro| not consist in any greater truth or superior knowledge. For
840 Intro| own showing must not his ‘truth’ depend on the number of
841 Intro| he speaks truly; and his truth will be true neither to
842 Intro| is not going beyond the truth. But if the old Protagoras
843 Intro| unable to meet them with truth and honesty, and he has
844 Intro| gain reputation, but the truth is, that the outer form
845 Intro| to be good. And yet the truth is, that God is righteous;
846 Intro| that we can disprove the truth of immediate states of feeling.
847 Intro| Oceanus and Tethys; the truth was once concealed, but
848 Intro| and therefore fails of truth; and therefore has no share
849 Intro| and the final criterion of truth, because the outward can
850 Intro| an objective standard of truth?~These two questions have
851 Intro| the tests or criteria of truth. One man still remains wiser
852 Intro| less certain. Again, the truth must often come to a man
853 Intro| such a mass of acknowledged truth in the mathematical and
854 Intro| acquiesce in the statement that truth is appearance only, or that
855 Intro| difference between appearance and truth.~The relativity of knowledge
856 Intro| an objective standard of truth. He did not consider whether
857 Intro| brought back from ‘nature’ to ‘truth,’ from the world to man.
858 Intro| good without caring about truth, is by no means singular,
859 Intro| Socrates with going beyond the truth; and Protagoras has equally
860 Intro| arguments there remains a truth, that knowledge is something
861 Intro| explanation an element of truth which is not recognized
862 Intro| recognized by Plato; viz. that truth and thought are inseparable
863 Intro| expression in words is not truth. The second explanation
864 Intro| double aspects under which truth is so often presented to
865 Intro| cannot be both is a half truth only. These are a few of
866 Intro| reasoning and have a certain truth to us.~Whether space exists
867 Intro| their recurrence or the truth of the consequences which
868 Intro| been taught it, and the truth which we were taught or
869 Intro| than to assume that all the truth which we are capable of
870 Intro| may be applied with equal truth to memory as well. For memory
871 Intro| impressions of sense are the truth of the world in which we
872 Intro| prior to experience. The truth seems to be that we begin
873 Intro| upon us in the search after truth. But imagination is also
874 Intro| Weary of asking ‘What is truth?’ it accepts the ‘blind
875 Intro| always been seeking after a truth or ideal of which they fell
876 Intro| affords no evidence of its truth or value. Many who have
877 Intro| accurate representations of the truth; they are the reflections
878 Intro| a nearer approach to the truth than is to be gained from
879 Intro| colour is to the eye; but the truth is rather concealed than
880 Intro| the enquiry; whereas, in truth, it is indistinguishable
881 Intro| immortality; he sees the forms of truth, holiness and love, and
882 Intro| together has tested the truth of them, and given a stimulus
883 Intro| of man. There can be no truth or completeness in any study
884 Text | the young fellows; for the truth is, that I am unused to
885 Text | would bring to light the truth.~SOCRATES: Come, you made
886 Text | lies and shams than of the truth; and they have at last ended
887 Text | falsehood, or to stifle the truth. Once more, then, Theaetetus,
888 Text | you and me, but told the truth, ‘his Truth,’ (In allusion
889 Text | but told the truth, ‘his Truth,’ (In allusion to a book
890 Text | you to unearth the hidden ‘truth’ of a famous man or school.~
891 Text | our lives we affirm the truth of the one, and, during
892 Text | Certainly.~SOCRATES: And is truth or falsehood to be determined
893 Text | this, after all, not the truth?~SOCRATES: You, Theodorus,
894 Text | did not begin his book on Truth with a declaration that
895 Text | overpowering effect? For if truth is only sensation, and no
896 Text | the case if Protagoras’ Truth is the real truth, and the
897 Text | Protagoras’ Truth is the real truth, and the philosopher is
898 Text | made fun of poor me. The truth is, O slatternly Socrates,
899 Text | For I declare that the truth is as I have written, and
900 Text | must it not follow that the truth of which Protagoras wrote
901 Text | in that proportion his truth is more untrue than true.~
902 Text | That would follow if the truth is supposed to vary with
903 Text | that he acknowledges the truth of their opinion who believe
904 Text | Yes.~SOCRATES: And the truth of Protagoras being doubted
905 Text | we are going beyond the truth. Doubtless, as he is older,
906 Text | essence of their own—the truth is that which is agreed
907 Text | only aim is to attain the truth. But the lawyer is always
908 Text | which were too much for his truth and honesty, came upon him
909 Text | gain a reputation; but the truth is, that the outer form
910 Text | Socrates, as you do me, of the truth of your words, there would
911 Text | wives’ fable. Whereas, the truth is that God is never in
912 Text | caught when he ascribes truth to the opinions of others,
913 Text | Protagoras desires; and give the truth of the universal flux a
914 Text | river-gods,’ and, if we find any truth in them, we will help them
915 Text | and there would be no more truth in saying that all things
916 Text | SOCRATES: And can a man attain truth who fails of attaining being?~
917 Text | And can he who misses the truth of anything, have a knowledge
918 Text | in the mere impression, truth and being can be attained?~
919 Text | part in the attainment of truth any more than of being?~
920 Text | we not suspect the simple truth to be that he who thinks
921 Text | to have spoken the exact truth: when a man puts the base
922 Text | SOCRATES: And the origin of truth and error is as follows:—
923 Text | the verb ‘to know’? The truth is, Theaetetus, that we
924 Text | to convince others of the truth about acts of robbery or
925 Text | manner, we have found a truth which in former times many
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926 Intro| to have anticipated the truth.~The influence with the
927 Intro| For he has glimpses of the truth, but no comprehensive or
928 Intro| Panathenaic festival; the truth of the story is a great
929 Intro| being is to becoming what truth is to belief. And amid the
930 Intro| the very opposite of the truth, and they are false and
931 Intro| should attempt to test the truth of this by experiment, would
932 Intro| to its natural size.~The truth concerning the soul can
933 Intro| this is a mistake; for the truth is that the intemperance
934 Intro| immortal thoughts, attains to truth and immortality, as far
935 Intro| often anticipations of the truth. He was full of original
936 Intro| in word only, but in very truth, for ten thousand years’ (
937 Intro| and also the beginning of truth to them was reasoning from
938 Intro| to error and sometimes to truth; for many thoughts were
939 Intro| a nearer approach to the truth than any patient investigation
940 Intro| abstraction the greater the truth. Behind any pair of ideas
941 Intro| proportions, and to comprehend all truth. Being or essence, and similar
942 Intro| to the eye of sense; the truth of nature was mathematics;
943 Intro| trivial, assured men of their truth; they were everywhere to
944 Intro| certain amount of scientific truth imperceptibly blends, even
945 Intro| other hand, there is no truth of which Plato is more firmly
946 Intro| of Plato is equivalent to truth or law, and need not imply
947 Intro| to darken the purity of truth in itself.—So far the words
948 Intro| independent of time, that truth is not a thing of yesterday
949 Intro| described as Mind or Being or Truth or God or the unchangeable
950 Intro| to have an inkling of the truth that to the higher nature
951 Intro| with an insight into the truth, ‘every disease is akin
952 Intro| ends and the philosophical truth begins; we cannot explain (
953 Intro| disposed to believe in the truth of it as the modern reader
954 Intro| Are not the words, ‘The truth of the story is a great
955 Intro| records in their temples. The truth is that the introduction
956 Intro| examine in detail the exact truth about these things’—what
957 Intro| the place of reason and truth, how all philosophies grow
958 Intro| the mind of the reader the truth of his narrative have been
959 Intro| which works with equal truth, whether she be in the circle
960 Intro| partaking of the natural truth of reason, might imitate
961 Text | being is to becoming, so is truth to belief. If then, Socrates,
962 Text | which works with equal truth, whether she be in the circle
963 Text | the very opposite of the truth.~When the father and creator
964 Text | he ‘will be,’ but the truth is that ‘is’ alone is properly
965 Text | the very opposite of the truth; and they become false and
966 Text | partaking of the natural truth of reason, might imitate
967 Text | generation. I have spoken the truth; but I must express myself
968 Text | sleep and determine the truth about them. For an image,
969 Text | would arrive at the probable truth of nature ought duly to
970 Text | them to attain a measure of truth, placed in the liver the
971 Text | wits, attains prophetic truth and inspiration; but when
972 Text | that we have spoken the truth, then, and then only, can
973 Text | which is a mistake. The truth is that the intemperance
974 Text | and divine, if he attain truth, and in so far as human