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The Apology
Part
1 Intro| detecting the pretended wisdom of mankind; and this occupation
2 Intro| hearing the pretenders to wisdom detected. If they have been
3 Intro| like so much else, e.g. the wisdom of Critias, the poem of
4 Text | myself, if he really has this wisdom, and teaches at such a moderate
5 Text | come of a certain sort of wisdom which I possess. If you
6 Text | you ask me what kind of wisdom, I reply, wisdom such as
7 Text | kind of wisdom, I reply, wisdom such as may perhaps be attained
8 Text | speaking have a superhuman wisdom which I may fail to describe,
9 Text | he will tell you about my wisdom, if I have any, and of what
10 Text | for I know that I have no wisdom, small or great. What then
11 Text | who had the reputation of wisdom, and observed him—his name
12 Text | still higher pretensions to wisdom, and my conclusion was exactly
13 Text | Then I knew that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but
14 Text | them overshadowed their wisdom; and therefore I asked myself
15 Text | that I myself possess the wisdom which I find wanting in
16 Text | intends to show that the wisdom of men is worth little or
17 Text | Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.
18 Text | and make enquiry into the wisdom of any one, whether citizen
19 Text | truth which your superior wisdom has recognized thus early
20 Text | is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being
21 Text | of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretence of knowing
22 Text | and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest
23 Text | cross-examination of the pretenders to wisdom; there is amusement in it.
24 Text | and who has a name for wisdom, ought not to demean himself.
25 Text | are said to be superior in wisdom and courage, and any other
26 Text | himself, and seek virtue and wisdom before he looks to his private
Charmides
Part
27 PreS | qualities, of virtue, power, wisdom, and the like, as feminine
28 Intro| Modesty, Discretion, Wisdom, without completely exhausting
29 Intro| places either Temperance or Wisdom, as the connection seemed
30 Intro| subject of temperance or wisdom? The answer is that (6)
31 Text | them were remarkable for wisdom or beauty, or both. Critias,
32 Text | temperate, but not know his own wisdom or temperance?~But that,
33 Text | discover that temperance, or wisdom, if implying a knowledge
34 Text | question about temperance, or wisdom, which, according to you,
35 Text | wise, does temperance or wisdom, which is the science of
36 Text | Socrates, he said; for wisdom is not like the other sciences,
37 Text | what is that which is not wisdom, and of which wisdom is
38 Text | not wisdom, and of which wisdom is the science?~You are
39 Text | You come asking in what wisdom or temperance differs from
40 Text | and not of themselves; wisdom alone is a science of other
41 Text | you mean to affirm about wisdom.~I mean to say that wisdom
42 Text | wisdom.~I mean to say that wisdom is the only science which
43 Text | to do this. And this is wisdom and temperance and self-knowledge—
44 Text | science which is called wisdom or temperance is included.
45 Text | not acknowledge this to be wisdom or temperance, until I can
46 Text | maintain that temperance or wisdom is a science of science,
47 Text | saying, is self-knowledge or wisdom: so we were saying?~Yes,
48 Text | that he knows health;—not wisdom or temperance, but the art
49 Text | building,—neither, from wisdom or temperance: and the same
50 Text | That is evident.~How will wisdom, regarded only as a knowledge
51 Text | what he knows?~True.~Then wisdom or being wise appears to
52 Text | knowledge of some kind; but wisdom will not show him of what
53 Text | assumed to be the province of wisdom.~True.~And further, since
54 Text | Very true.~Then, assuredly, wisdom or temperance, if only a
55 Text | know his fellow in art or wisdom, and no one else.~That is
56 Text | is there any longer in wisdom or temperance which yet
57 Text | yet remains, if this is wisdom? If, indeed, as we were
58 Text | administered under the guidance of wisdom, and everything else of
59 Text | everything else of which wisdom was the lord, would have
60 Text | as the great advantage of wisdom—to know what is known and
61 Text | assume then, I said, that wisdom, viewed in this new light
62 Text | which are to be gained from wisdom? And are not we looking
63 Text | observe that if this is wisdom, some strange consequences
64 Text | originally suggested, that wisdom is the knowledge of what
65 Text | doubtful, Critias, whether wisdom, such as this, would do
66 Text | saying just now, that such wisdom ordering the government
67 Text | be to admit that this is wisdom, I certainly cannot make
68 Text | this: Let us suppose that wisdom is such as we are now defining,
69 Text | be under the control of wisdom, and that she will deter
70 Text | according to knowledge, for wisdom would watch and prevent
71 Text | But that science is not wisdom or temperance, but a science
72 Text | if this be of use, then wisdom or temperance will not be
73 Text | why, he replied, will not wisdom be of use? For, however
74 Text | however much we assume that wisdom is a science of sciences,
75 Text | will benefit us.~And will wisdom give health? I said; is
76 Text | effect of medicine? Or does wisdom do the work of any of the
77 Text | long ago asseverated that wisdom is only the knowledge of
78 Text | else?~That is obvious.~Then wisdom will not be the producer
79 Text | Yes, different.~Nor does wisdom give advantage, my good
80 Text | Very true.~How then can wisdom be advantageous, when giving
81 Text | have no sound notion about wisdom; I was quite right in depreciating
82 Text | this name of temperance or wisdom. And yet many more admissions
83 Text | definition of temperance or wisdom: which result, as far as
84 Text | having such beauty and such wisdom and temperance of soul,
85 Text | or good in life from your wisdom and temperance. And still
86 Text | must be a bad enquirer, for wisdom or temperance I believe
87 Text | or have not this gift of wisdom and temperance; for how
Cratylus
Part
88 Intro| ludicrous fear of his imaginary wisdom. When he is arguing out
89 Intro| pretended derivation of his wisdom from another, the extravagance
90 Intro| speaker;’ the dearly-bought wisdom of Callias, the Lacedaemonian
91 Intro| then he discovers a hive of wisdom in the philosophy of Heracleitus;—
92 Intro| bought his reputation for wisdom rather dearly; and since
93 Intro| in motion, and she in her wisdom moves with them, and the
94 Intro| also significant of her wisdom (sophe). Apollo is another
95 Intro| in those charming words, wisdom, understanding, justice,
96 Intro| probably every art and part of wisdom had been DISCOVERED AND
97 Text | And if, on the other hand, wisdom and folly are really distinguishable,
98 Text | bought the reputation of wisdom. But you have not yet come
99 Text | might have seen whether this wisdom, which has come to me all
100 Text | and I listened, and his wisdom and enchanting ravishment
101 Text | given to him signifying wisdom. And I say too, that every
102 Text | have discovered a hive of wisdom.~HERMOGENES: Of what nature?~
103 Text | able to follow them, is wisdom. And therefore the Goddess
104 Text | ephaptomene), herein showing her wisdom. And Hades, who is wise,
105 Text | in those charming words—wisdom, understanding, justice,
106 Text | consider the meaning of wisdom (phronesis) and understanding (
107 Text | name?~SOCRATES: Phronesis (wisdom), which may signify phoras
108 Text | salvation (soteria) of that wisdom (phronesis) which we were
109 Text | nature of things. Sophia (wisdom) is very dark, and appears
110 Text | been wondering at my own wisdom; I cannot trust myself.
Critias
Part
111 Intro| the growth of virtue and wisdom; and there they settled
112 Intro| practised gentleness and wisdom in their intercourse with
113 Text | was naturally adapted for wisdom and virtue; and there they
114 Text | uniting gentleness with wisdom in the various chances of
Euthydemus
Part
115 Intro| forgetting the virtues and wisdom. And yet in this enumeration
116 Intro| good fortune when we have wisdom already:—in every art and
117 Intro| nor evil— knowledge and wisdom are the only good, and ignorance
118 Intro| conclusion is that we must get ‘wisdom.’ But can wisdom be taught? ‘
119 Intro| must get ‘wisdom.’ But can wisdom be taught? ‘Yes,’ says Cleinias.
120 Intro| his great puzzles. ‘Since wisdom is the only good, he must
121 Intro| philosopher, or lover of wisdom.’ ‘That I will,’ says Cleinias.~
122 Intro| your father got out of the wisdom of his puppies.’~‘But,’
123 Intro| Ctesippus, imitating the new wisdom, replies, ‘And do not the
124 Intro| criticise severely this wisdom,—not sparing Socrates himself
125 Intro| great notion of their own wisdom; for they imagine themselves
126 Text | and what is their line of wisdom?~SOCRATES: As to their origin,
127 Text | these regions. As to their wisdom, about which you ask, Crito,
128 Text | only the beginning of their wisdom, but they have at last carried
129 Text | they had none of their new wisdom. I am only apprehensive
130 Text | me a description of their wisdom, that I may know beforehand
131 Text | small but in a large way of wisdom, for they know all about
132 Text | you intend to exhibit your wisdom; or what will you do?~That
133 Text | exhibit the power of his wisdom. Then I said: O Euthydemus
134 Text | task of rehearsing infinite wisdom, and therefore, like the
135 Text | in an ecstasy at their wisdom, gave vent to another peal
136 Text | the study of virtue and wisdom? And I will first show you
137 Text | I am eager to hear your wisdom: and I must therefore ask
138 Text | shall we find a place for wisdom—among the goods or not?~
139 Text | this, and I replied: Surely wisdom is good-fortune; even a
140 Text | ignorant one?~He assented.~Then wisdom always makes men fortunate:
141 Text | makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man would ever err, and
142 Text | rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.~
143 Text | or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.~We contrived
144 Text | conclusion, that he who had wisdom had no need of fortune.
145 Text | have neither good sense nor wisdom? Would a man be better off,
146 Text | doing many things without wisdom, or a few things with wisdom?
147 Text | wisdom, or a few things with wisdom? Look at the matter thus:
148 Text | when under the guidance of wisdom and prudence, they are greater
149 Text | are indifferent, and that wisdom is the only good, and ignorance
150 Text | them that they would impart wisdom to you, is not at all dishonourable,
151 Text | not, if his aim is to get wisdom. Do you agree? I said.~Yes,
152 Text | said, Cleinias, if only wisdom can be taught, and does
153 Text | I think, Socrates, that wisdom can be taught, he said.~
154 Text | investigation as to whether wisdom can be taught or not. But
155 Text | But now, as you think that wisdom can be taught, and that
156 Text | can be taught, and that wisdom only can make a man happy
157 Text | all of us ought to love wisdom, and you individually will
158 Text | young man in virtue and wisdom is a matter which we have
159 Text | that he should practise wisdom and virtue. Dionysodorus,
160 Text | and excellent devices of wisdom; I am afraid that I hardly
161 Text | refute me, and all your wisdom will be non-plussed; but
162 Text | by men of your prodigious wisdom—how can I say that I know
163 Text | prevent me from learning the wisdom of Euthydemus.~Then answer
164 Text | puppies got out of this wisdom of yours.~But neither he
165 Text | touched: so that here your wisdom is strangely mistaken; please,
166 Text | them; for there has been no wisdom like theirs in our time.
167 Text | said, this is the crown of wisdom; can I ever hope to have
168 Text | I ever hope to have such wisdom of my own?~And would you
169 Text | Socrates, to recognize this wisdom when it has become your
170 Text | Euthydemus is the top, of all my wisdom.~Is not that which you would
171 Text | never seen the like of their wisdom; I was their devoted servant,
172 Text | their title to the palm of wisdom, for that they are themselves
173 Text | they entertain of their own wisdom is very natural; for they
174 Text | certain amount of political wisdom; there is reason in what
175 Text | reap the fruits of their wisdom.~CRITO: What do you say
176 Text | anything which is at all like wisdom: at the same time we shall
Euthyphro
Part
177 Text | he begins to impart his wisdom to others, and then for
178 Text | and seldom impart your wisdom. But I have a benevolent
179 Text | have made great strides in wisdom, before he could have seen
180 Text | assent to your superior wisdom. What else can I say, confessing
181 Text | and I will applaud your wisdom as long as I live.~EUTHYPHRO:
182 Text | not. For I would give the wisdom of Daedalus, and the wealth
183 Text | friend, the abundance of your wisdom makes you lazy. Please to
The First Alcibiades
Part
184 Intro| can arrive at virtue and wisdom who has not once in his
185 Text | said not to have got his wisdom by the light of nature,
186 Text | in the hope of gaining wisdom.~SOCRATES: Very good; but
187 Text | to impart his particular wisdom? For example, he who taught
188 Text | to the increase of their wisdom and fame.~ALCIBIADES: I
189 Text | upon his training and wisdom—these are the things which
190 Text | that which has to do with wisdom and knowledge?~ALCIBIADES:
191 Text | self-knowledge we agree to be wisdom?~ALCIBIADES: True.~SOCRATES:
192 Text | no self-knowledge and no wisdom, can we ever know our own
193 Text | has riches, but he who has wisdom, is delivered from his misery?~
194 Text | the state, but justice and wisdom.~ALCIBIADES: Clearly.~SOCRATES:
Gorgias
Part
195 Intro| There neither pleasure nor wisdom are allowed to be the chief
196 Intro| they are not prompted by wisdom, are of no value. We believe
197 Intro| a country is from below, wisdom and experience are from
198 Text | sure, Socrates.~SOCRATES: Wisdom and health and wealth and
199 Text | acquire the reputation of wisdom. But leave to others these
200 Text | were afraid that too much wisdom might unconsciously to yourselves
201 Text | Not the same, O man of wisdom.~SOCRATES: And would you
Ion
Part
202 Intro| sophist professes to have all wisdom, which is contained in his
Laches
Part
203 Text | old age of itself brings wisdom. To me, to be cross-examined
204 Text | virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy
205 Text | who endures with all this wisdom and preparation, that he,
206 Text | that courage is a sort of wisdom.~LACHES: What can he possibly
207 Text | Nicias, what you mean by this wisdom; for you surely do not mean
208 Text | you surely do not mean the wisdom which plays the flute?~NICIAS:
209 Text | Certainly not.~SOCRATES: Nor the wisdom which plays the lyre?~NICIAS:
210 Text | nature of this knowledge or wisdom.~NICIAS: I mean to say,
211 Text | courage is one thing, and wisdom another.~SOCRATES: That
212 Text | animal, has such a degree of wisdom that he knows things which
213 Text | the source from which his wisdom is derived. He has got all
214 Text | been enlightened by the wisdom of Damon.~NICIAS: I perceive,
Laws
Book
215 1 | justice and temperance and wisdom, when united with courage,
216 1 | of sight, if only he has wisdom for his companion. For wisdom
217 1 | wisdom for his companion. For wisdom is chief and leader of the
218 2 | originally present to them. As to wisdom and true and fixed opinions,
219 2 | for they will require both wisdom and courage; the true judge
220 3 | political or any other sort of wisdom have utterly disappeared?~
221 3 | ought to pray and strive for wisdom.~Athenian. Yes; and I remember,
222 3 | ordain laws with a view to wisdom; while you were arguing
223 3 | leader of all the rest—I mean wisdom and mind and opinion, having
224 3 | must endeavour to implant wisdom in states, and banish ignorance
225 3 | there be the least shadow of wisdom when there is no harmony?
226 3 | said to be the greatest wisdom; and of this he is a partaker
227 3 | utterly ignorant of political wisdom. Let this, then, as I was
228 3 | have had the appearance of wisdom, but was really, as we assert,
229 3 | Truly there is no great wisdom in knowing, and no great
230 3 | the next place, some human wisdom mingled with divine power,
231 3 | be lasting, there is no wisdom, as I have already said,
232 3 | temperance is to be the aim, or wisdom is to be the aim, or friendship
233 3 | speaking of friendship and wisdom and freedom, I wish that
234 3 | combination of friendship with wisdom, you must have both these
235 3 | counsel, he imparted his wisdom to the public; for the king
236 4 | coincides with the greatest wisdom and temperance, then the
237 4 | case of the many proves the wisdom of Hesiod, who says that
238 5 | given about temperance and wisdom, and all other goods which
239 5 | that their own ignorance is wisdom, and thus we who may be
240 5 | recollection flows in while wisdom is departing. Therefore
241 5 | create in them, instead of wisdom, the habit of craft, which
242 8 | courage and magnanimity and wisdom, and wishes to live chastely
243 8 | legislation, but are beneath the wisdom of an aged legislator. These
244 9 | accompanied by a conceit of wisdom; and he who is under the
245 10 | imagined to be the greatest wisdom.~Cleinias. What do you mean?~
246 10 | younger generation and their wisdom, I cannot let them off when
247 10 | that it is a principle of wisdom and virtue, or a principle
248 10 | principle which has neither wisdom nor virtue? Suppose that
249 10 | justice and temperance and wisdom are our salvation; and the
250 12 | being courage and the other wisdom. I will tell you how that
251 12 | speaking—courage, temperance, wisdom, justice?~Cleinias. How
Lysis
Part
252 Intro| philosopher or lover of wisdom stands: he is not wise,
253 Intro| to him, and he yearns for wisdom as the cure of the evil. (
254 Intro| who are our fathers in wisdom,’ and yet only tell us half
255 Text | when they see that you have wisdom enough to manage them?~Yes.~
256 Text | have not yet attained to wisdom.~True.~And therefore you
257 Text | return of love; no, nor of wisdom, unless wisdom loves them
258 Text | no, nor of wisdom, unless wisdom loves them in return. Or
259 Text | the fathers and authors of wisdom, and they speak of friends
260 Text | are no longer lovers of wisdom; nor can they be lovers
261 Text | nor can they be lovers of wisdom who are ignorant to the
262 Text | ignorant person is a lover of wisdom. There remain those who
263 Text | those who are the lovers of wisdom are as yet neither good
264 Text | But the bad do not love wisdom any more than the good;
Menexenus
Part
265 Intro| Symposium he derives his wisdom from Diotima of Mantinea,
266 Text | reputation of virtue and wisdom.~And so their and our fathers,
267 Text | seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your
Meno
Part
268 Intro| imparted their own political wisdom; but no one ever heard that
269 Intro| world below,—‘he alone has wisdom, but the rest flit like
270 Intro| desirous of contrasting the wisdom which governs the world
271 Intro| the world with a higher wisdom. There are many instincts,
272 Text | equally famous for their wisdom, especially at Larisa, which
273 Text | Thessalians, fell in love with his wisdom. And he has taught you the
274 Text | of the commodity, and all wisdom seems to have emigrated
275 Text | Courage and temperance and wisdom and magnanimity are virtues;
276 Text | mighty men and great in wisdom and are called saintly heroes
277 Text | when under the guidance of wisdom, ends in happiness; but
278 Text | be profitable, it must be wisdom or prudence, since none
279 Text | hurtful by the addition of wisdom or of folly; and therefore
280 Text | virtue must be a sort of wisdom or prudence?~MENO: I quite
281 Text | when under the guidance of wisdom and harmed by folly?~MENO:
282 Text | the soul herself hang upon wisdom, if they are to be good;
283 Text | they are to be good; and so wisdom is inferred to be that which
284 Text | either wholly or partly wisdom?~MENO: I think that what
285 Text | desires to attain that kind of wisdom and virtue by which men
286 Text | again, magnificent in his wisdom; and he, as you are aware,
287 Text | SOCRATES: If virtue was wisdom (or knowledge), then, as
288 Text | if it was taught it was wisdom?~MENO: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
289 Text | not taught, and was not wisdom?~MENO: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
290 Text | And therefore not by any wisdom, and not because they were
Parmenides
Part
291 Text | mind can attain truth and wisdom. And therefore, Parmenides,
Phaedo
Part
292 Intro| which alone he can behold wisdom in her purity?~Besides,
293 Intro| All the virtues, including wisdom, are regarded by him only
294 Text | then we shall attain the wisdom which we desire, and of
295 Text | they desired—and this was wisdom—and at the same time to
296 Text | he who is a true lover of wisdom, and is strongly persuaded
297 Text | there only, he can find wisdom in her purity. And if this
298 Text | that he is not a lover of wisdom, but a lover of the body,
299 Text | be exchanged?—and that is wisdom; and only in exchange for
300 Text | virtue the companion of wisdom, no matter what fears or
301 Text | when they are severed from wisdom and exchanged with one another,
302 Text | justice, and courage, and wisdom herself are the purgation
303 Text | state of the soul is called wisdom?~That is well and truly
304 Text | of the highest virtue and wisdom. For the soul when on her
305 Text | we may obtain virtue and wisdom in this life? Fair is the
Phaedrus
Part
306 Intro| there to behold beauty, wisdom, goodness, and the other
307 Intro| glorious sights of justice and wisdom and temperance and truth
308 Intro| representation on earth: wisdom is invisible to mortal eyes.
309 Intro| of justice, temperance, wisdom, should be expressed in
310 Intro| truths. ‘Not in that way was wisdom seen.’~We may now pass on
311 Intro| and art and of the deepest wisdom may be also noted; such
312 Text | which would have given him wisdom, and thereby he cannot fail
313 Text | of love and infatuation, wisdom and temperance are his bosom’
314 Text | gods. The divine is beauty, wisdom, goodness, and the like;
315 Text | senses; though not by that is wisdom seen; her loveliness would
316 Text | proceeds to display his own wisdom to his admirers in what
317 Text | imaginary art, their superior wisdom would rather censure us,
318 Text | company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.~PHAEDRUS:
319 Text | to God alone,—lovers of wisdom or philosophers is their
Philebus
Part
320 Intro| asked, whether pleasure or wisdom is the chief good, or some
321 Intro| latter, how pleasure and wisdom are related to this higher
322 Intro| combined life of pleasure and wisdom or knowledge has more of
323 Intro| Pleasure is of the first, wisdom or knowledge of the third
324 Intro| the third, to reason and wisdom; the fourth, to knowledge
325 Intro| relative places of pleasure and wisdom. Plato has been saying that
326 Intro| comparative claims of pleasure and wisdom to rank as the chief good
327 Intro| than either pleasure or wisdom, and then neither of them
328 Intro| eligibility of pleasure and wisdom:’ Socrates replies, that
329 Intro| world? And this cause is wisdom or mind, the royal mind
330 Intro| no reason why the life of wisdom should not exist in this
331 Intro| unchangeable. And reason and wisdom are concerned with the eternal;
332 Intro| too happy to dwell with wisdom. Secondly, ask the arts
333 Intro| comparative claims of pleasure and wisdom.~Which has the greater share
334 Intro| greater share of truth? Surely wisdom; for pleasure is the veriest
335 Intro| proverb.~Which of symmetry? Wisdom again; for nothing is more
336 Intro| Which of beauty? Once more, wisdom; for pleasure is often unseemly,
337 Intro| perfect.~Third, mind and wisdom.~Fourth, sciences and arts
338 Intro| philosopher is seeking after wisdom and not after pleasure,
339 Intro| embodied a divine love, wisdom, patience, reasonableness.
340 Intro| from holiness, harmony, wisdom, love. By the slight addition ‘
341 Intro| pleasure, not virtue, not wisdom, nor yet any quality which
342 Intro| holiness, justice, love, wisdom, truth; these are to God,
343 Intro| another,—justice, holiness, wisdom, love, without succession
344 Text | contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory,
345 Text | pleasure, and I say that wisdom, is such a state?~PROTARCHUS:
346 Text | akin to pleasure than to wisdom, the life of pleasure may
347 Text | advantage over the life of wisdom.~PROTARCHUS: True.~SOCRATES:
348 Text | is more nearly allied to wisdom, then wisdom conquers, and
349 Text | nearly allied to wisdom, then wisdom conquers, and pleasure is
350 Text | man has pleasure in his wisdom? and how foolish would any
351 Text | SOCRATES: Ask me whether wisdom and science and mind, and
352 Text | to be called the good, or wisdom, or some third quality;
353 Text | has found a treasure of wisdom; in the first enthusiasm
354 Text | eligibility of pleasure and wisdom?~PHILEBUS: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
355 Text | of them, and the same of wisdom.~SOCRATES: Most true, O
356 Text | discussions about pleasure and wisdom, whether awake or in a dream
357 Text | pleasure from the life of wisdom, and pass them in review.~
358 Text | SOCRATES: Let there be no wisdom in the life of pleasure,
359 Text | pleasure in the life of wisdom, for if either of them is
360 Text | Reflect; would you not want wisdom and intelligence and forethought,
361 Text | consent to live, having wisdom and mind and knowledge and
362 Text | of pleasure with mind and wisdom?~SOCRATES: Yes, that is
363 Text | belonged to pleasure or wisdom?~PROTARCHUS: We were.~SOCRATES:
364 Text | mixed life of pleasure and wisdom was the conqueror—did we
365 Text | without irreverence place wisdom and knowledge and mind?
366 Text | marvellous intelligence and wisdom.~PROTARCHUS: Wide asunder
367 Text | too all the attributes of wisdom;—we cannot, I say, imagine
368 Text | and may be justly called wisdom and mind?~PROTARCHUS: Most
369 Text | Most justly.~SOCRATES: And wisdom and mind cannot exist without
370 Text | man chooses the life of wisdom, there is no reason why
371 Text | the life of thought and wisdom.~PROTARCHUS: Yes, certainly,
372 Text | all the virtues, is not wisdom the one which the mass of
373 Text | contention and lying conceit of wisdom?~PROTARCHUS: Certainly.~
374 Text | vain conceit of beauty, of wisdom, and of wealth, are ridiculous
375 Text | SOCRATES: And are not mind and wisdom the names which are to be
376 Text | ingredients, pleasure and wisdom, and we may be compared
377 Text | name they are two, and that wisdom partakes more than pleasure
378 Text | imaginary separation of wisdom and pleasure, assigning
379 Text | was wholly excluded from wisdom, and wisdom in like manner
380 Text | excluded from wisdom, and wisdom in like manner had no part
381 Text | and assuming memory and wisdom and knowledge and true opinion
382 Text | wanting to him? And about wisdom I ask the same question;
383 Text | would choose to have all wisdom absolutely devoid of pleasure,
384 Text | or all pleasure devoid of wisdom, rather than with a certain
385 Text | with a certain degree of wisdom?~PROTARCHUS: Certainly not,
386 Text | fountain of honey; the other, wisdom, a sober draught in which
387 Text | pleasure with every sort of wisdom?~PROTARCHUS: Perhaps we
388 Text | daughters of pleasure and wisdom to answer for themselves.~
389 Text | rather live with or without wisdom? I am of opinion that they
390 Text | go back and interrogate wisdom and mind: Would you like
391 Text | enough whether pleasure or wisdom is more akin to the highest
392 Text | pleasure has more of this than wisdom, or wisdom than pleasure?~
393 Text | of this than wisdom, or wisdom than pleasure?~PROTARCHUS:
394 Text | saw or imagined mind or wisdom to be in aught unseemly,
395 Text | the third dass mind and wisdom, you will not be far wrong,
Protagoras
Part
396 Intro| for example, is opposed to wisdom; and folly is also opposed
397 Intro| therefore temperance and wisdom are the same. And holiness
398 Intro| men, is bound to say “that wisdom and knowledge are the highest
399 Text | he has, Socrates, of the wisdom which he keeps from me.~
400 Text | further to ask: What is the wisdom of the Sophist, and what
401 Text | your age, and with all your wisdom, if any one were to teach
402 Text | to impart their political wisdom to others: as for example,
403 Text | to man. Thus man had the wisdom necessary to the support
404 Text | support of life, but political wisdom he had not; for that was
405 Text | only by way of justice and wisdom, they are patient enough
406 Text | then, that courage and wisdom are also parts of virtue?~
407 Text | they are, he answered; and wisdom is the noblest of the parts.~
408 Text | folly?~I do.~And is not wisdom the very opposite of folly?~
409 Text | us to be the opposite of wisdom?~He assented.~And we said
410 Text | opposite; the other that wisdom is distinct from temperance,
411 Text | clearly the two opposites—wisdom and temperance? Is not that
412 Text | reluctance.~Then temperance and wisdom are the same, as before
413 Text | for you are a master of wisdom; but I cannot manage these
414 Text | the mind when receiving wisdom and knowledge, but pleasure
415 Text | which is the metropolis of wisdom, and in the greatest and
416 Text | right moment; for he has a wisdom, Protagoras, which, as I
417 Text | that they rule the world by wisdom, like the Sophists of whom
418 Text | would be practising their wisdom. And this secret of theirs
419 Text | may perceive that their wisdom was of this character; consisting
420 Text | the first-fruits of their wisdom, the far-famed inscriptions,
421 Text | ambitious of the fame of wisdom, was aware that if he could
422 Text | the question was this: Are wisdom and temperance and courage
423 Text | and upon that view again wisdom will be courage.~Nay, Socrates,
424 Text | that courage is the same as wisdom. But in this way of arguing
425 Text | imagine that strength is wisdom. You might begin by asking
426 Text | prove that upon my view wisdom is strength; whereas in
427 Text | contrary to knowledge, but that wisdom will have strength to help
428 Text | men, am bound to say that wisdom and knowledge are the highest
429 Text | superiority of a man to himself is wisdom.~They all assented.~And
430 Text | cowardice?~Yes.~Then the wisdom which knows what are and
The Republic
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431 1 | begin. Behold, he said, the wisdom of Socrates; he refuses
432 1 | wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that
433 1 | you class injustice with wisdom and virtue, and justice
434 1 | hesitate to rank injustice with wisdom and virtue. ~You have guessed
435 1 | that justice was virtue and wisdom, and injustice vice and
436 1 | having been identified with wisdom and virtue, is easily shown
437 1 | your view, and justice is wisdom, then only with justice;
438 1 | single person, would your wisdom say that she loses or that
439 1 | whether justice is virtue and wisdom, or evil and folly; and
440 2 | of learning the love of wisdom, which is philosophy? ~They
441 2 | by nature be a lover of wisdom and knowledge? ~That we
442 4 | there is, I think, small wisdom in legislating about such
443 4 | virtues found in the State, wisdom comes into view, and in
444 4 | knowledge worthy to be called wisdom, has been ordained by nature
445 4 | the virtuous desires and wisdom of the few. ~That I perceive,
446 4 | temperance is unlike courage and wisdom, each of which resides in
447 4 | be stronger or weaker in wisdom, or power, or numbers, or
448 4 | temperance and courage and wisdom are abstracted; and, that
449 4 | true nature of dangers, or wisdom and watchfulness in the
450 4 | other political virtues, wisdom, temperance, courage. ~Yes,
451 4 | knowledge which presides over it wisdom, and that which at any time
452 5 | plucking ~"A fruit of unripe wisdom," ~and he himself is ignorant
453 5 | political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner
454 5 | lover, not of a part of wisdom only, but of the whole? ~
455 5 | opinion rather than lovers of wisdom, and will they be very angry
456 5 | are to be called lovers of wisdom and not lovers of opinion. ~
457 6 | there anything more akin to wisdom than truth? ~How can there
458 6 | same nature be a lover of wisdom and a lover of falsehood? ~
459 6 | assemblies; and this is their wisdom. I might compare them to
460 6 | he calls his knowledge wisdom, and makes of it a system
461 6 | does he who thinks that wisdom is the discernment of the
462 6 | worthy of or akin to true wisdom? ~No doubt, he said. ~Then,
463 6 | temperance, courage, and wisdom? ~Indeed, he said, if I
464 7 | old habitation, and the wisdom of the den and his fellow-prisoners,
465 7 | exercise, the virtue of wisdom more than anything else
466 7 | gold, but in virtue and wisdom, which are the true blessings
467 8 | fecundity and sterility all the wisdom and education of your rulers
468 8 | the soul in the pursuit of wisdom and virtue, may be rightly
469 9 | fame. ~Far less. ~"Lover of wisdom," "lover of knowledge,"
470 9 | classes of men-lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, lovers
471 9 | better than experience, and wisdom, and reason? ~There cannot
472 9 | truth. ~Then the lover of wisdom has a great advantage over
473 9 | honor of the pleasures of wisdom? ~Nay, he said, all three
474 9 | is the only one who has wisdom as well as experience? ~
475 9 | But since experience and wisdom and reason are the judges - ~
476 9 | approved by the lover of wisdom and reason are the truest. ~
477 9 | soul? ~True. ~And food and wisdom are the corresponding satisfactions
478 9 | Those, then, who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always
479 9 | win the pleasures which wisdom shows them, will also have
480 9 | better be ruled by divine wisdom dwelling within him; or,
481 9 | justice and temperance and wisdom, more than the body ever
482 10 | greatly beloved for his wisdom, and whose followers are
483 10 | Where, then? ~At her love of wisdom. Let us see whom she affects,
484 10 | those who were not saved by wisdom drank more than was necessary;
The Second Alcibiades
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485 Text | not care to manifest his wisdom but keeps it to himself
486 Text | require an almost superhuman wisdom to discover what the poet
487 Text | also it would seem that wisdom and justice are especially
The Seventh Letter
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488 Text | righteousness with the guidance of wisdom, either possessing these
489 Text | one who gives his mind to wisdom and virtue? For if he thinks
490 Text | of piety, temperance and wisdom, when dealing with the impious,
The Sophist
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491 Intro| foolishness of Athenian wisdom. At any rate he is a divine
492 Intro| refuse to attribute qualities—wisdom, folly, justice and injustice.
493 Intro| existence conform to it.’ Wisdom of this sort is well parodied
494 Intro| his higher attributes of wisdom, goodness, truth.~The system
495 Text | their supreme and universal wisdom? For if they neither disputed
496 Text | possession of justice and wisdom, and the opposite under
497 Text | allowing that justice, wisdom, the other virtues, and
498 Text | other qualities of justice, wisdom, and the like, about which
499 Text | believe to be the height of wisdom.~THEAETETUS: Certainly,
The Statesman
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500 Intro| richer some day in true wisdom. But how would you subdivide