The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|         the enemy of rhetoric, and knows of no rhetoric but truth;
  2 Intro|           Of natural philosophy he knows nothing; not that he despises
  3 Intro|     overwise as to imagine that he knows whether death is a good
  4 Text |          suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful
  5 Text |            off than he is,— for he knows nothing, and thinks that
  6 Text |        nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think
  7 Text |        wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth
  8 Text |           who, in the first place, knows the laws.~The judges, Socrates,
  9 Text |            the unknown; and no one knows whether death, which men
 10 Text |          is the conceit that a man knows what he does not know? And
 11 Text |           Which is better God only knows.~THE END~     >


Charmides
    Part
 12 Intro|            knowledge of what a man knows and of what he does not
 13 Text |            able to examine what he knows or does not know, and to
 14 Text |          for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.
 15 Text |           a person to know that he knows and does not know what he
 16 Text |          and does not know what he knows and does not know; and in
 17 Text |         science or knowledge which knows itself will become like
 18 Text |             he should know what he knows and what he does not know?~
 19 Text |            Very true.~And if a man knows only, and has only knowledge
 20 Text |          he will only know that he knows something, and has a certain
 21 Text |          teach him to know what he knows? Say that he knows health;—
 22 Text |         what he knows? Say that he knows health;—not wisdom or temperance,
 23 Text |             ever teach him that he knows health, or that he knows
 24 Text |           knows health, or that he knows building?~It is impossible.~
 25 Text |      things will only know that he knows, but not what he knows?~
 26 Text |          he knows, but not what he knows?~True.~Then wisdom or being
 27 Text |        examine whether a pretender knows or does not know that which
 28 Text |         that which he says that he knows: he will only know that
 29 Text |          other hand, the physician knows nothing of science, for
 30 Text |      distinguish the physician who knows from one who does not know
 31 Text |         pretends or thinks that he knows, or any other professor
 32 Text |       which others have of what he knows himself; whereas the enquirer
 33 Text |     prophet, who, as I was saying, knows the future. Is it of him
 34 Text |          Yes, I said, some one who knows the past and present as
 35 Text |            assumption was, that he knows that which he does not know;


Cratylus
    Part
 36 Intro|         many declarations ‘that he knows nothing,’ ‘that he has learned
 37 Intro|        composed. The Socrates who ‘knows nothing,’ here passes into
 38 Intro|          work of naming, be he who knows how to use the names—he
 39 Intro|       letters; just as the painter knows how to use either a single
 40 Intro|           is to inform, and he who knows names knows things.’ Do
 41 Intro|             and he who knows names knows things.’ Do you mean that
 42 Intro|            we must suppose that he knows the things which he names:
 43 Intro| proprieties of language. Every one knows that we often put words
 44 Text |         Will not he be the man who knows how to direct what is being
 45 Text |       SOCRATES: And this is he who knows how to ask questions?~HERMOGENES:
 46 Text |         Yes.~SOCRATES: And him who knows how to ask and answer you
 47 Text |             and that not every man knows how to give a thing a name.~
 48 Text |          Theonoe may mean ‘she who knows divine things’ (Theia noousa)
 49 Text |       simple truth is, that he who knows names knows also the things
 50 Text |            that he who knows names knows also the things which are
 51 Text |         the thing; and that he who knows the one will also know the
 52 Text |          you would say that he who knows names will also know things.~
 53 Text |           known: but if that which knows and that which is known


Crito
    Part
 54 Text |        would let you in.~CRITO: He knows me because I often come,


Euthydemus
    Part
 55 Intro|          composer of speeches, who knows how to write them, but cannot
 56 Intro|    Euthydemus argues that Socrates knows something; and as he cannot
 57 Intro|           others, and therefore he knows all things: he and Dionysodorus
 58 Text |            great logician, and who knows when to answer and when
 59 Text |          or of any other art which knows only how to make a thing,
 60 Text |          enemy may slay.~‘Whom one knows, he knows. Either the person
 61 Text |          slay.~‘Whom one knows, he knows. Either the person knowing
 62 Text |        court; but they say that he knows the business, and is a clever


Euthyphro
    Part
 63 Text |            be despised. He says he knows how the youth are corrupted
 64 Text |      before the court for this. He knows that such a charge is readily
 65 Text |         the truth. For, if any man knows, you are he; and therefore


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 66 Intro|           ambition. Socrates, ‘who knows what is in man,’ astonishes
 67 Intro|            has admitted that if he knows he must either have learned
 68 Intro|     humiliating conclusion that he knows nothing of politics, even
 69 Intro|          truer self. The physician knows the body, and the tradesman
 70 Intro|            body, and the tradesman knows his own business, but they
 71 Intro|           commonest things. No man knows how ignorant he is, and
 72 Text | individuals of the things which he knows? The grammarian, for example,
 73 Text |            And this will be he who knows number, or the arithmetician?~
 74 Text |        matters which the one party knows, and of which the other
 75 Text |          only extends to the body, knows the things of a man, and
 76 Text |     trainer regarded as a trainer, knows himself?~ALCIBIADES: He
 77 Text |     supposed.~SOCRATES: And he who knows not the things which belong
 78 Text |          true.~SOCRATES: And if he knows not the affairs of others,


Gorgias
    Part
 79 Intro|       should have the game out. He knows by experience that rhetoric
 80 Intro|           else, will admit that he knows justice (how can he do otherwise
 81 Intro|        king to be happy, unless he knows his mental and moral condition.
 82 Intro|           vein of reflection. ‘Who knows,’ as Euripides says, ‘whether
 83 Intro|   instantly detects him, though he knows not who he is; he sees the
 84 Intro|           force of mind; he hardly knows where to begin in the search
 85 Intro|    posthumous fame, but because he knows that the result of his life
 86 Intro|         the appointed time, for he knows that human life, ‘if not
 87 Intro|            many great purposes. He knows, too, that the work will
 88 Intro|            coming struggle. But he knows also that there are permanent
 89 Intro|          the winds blow, though he knows not beforehand the hour
 90 Intro|       cannot do for themselves. He knows that if he does too much
 91 Intro|        mischievously adds, ‘Nobody knows what they did,’ and therefore
 92 Intro|       between them. A great writer knows how to strike both these
 93 Text |          was the art which Gorgias knows, you praised it as if you
 94 Text |          greater power than he who knows?~GORGIAS: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
 95 Text |     ignorant of what the physician knows.~GORGIAS: Clearly.~SOCRATES:
 96 Text |      things than some one else who knows? Or must the pupil know
 97 Text |         rhetoric at all, unless he knows the truth of these things
 98 Text |         claim to know what Gorgias knows—would you not?~POLUS: Yes.~
 99 Text |          bold and ready wit, which knows how to manage mankind: this
100 Text |         been right in saying,~‘Who knows if life be not death and
101 Text |    allowing them to be drowned. He knows that they are just the same
102 Text |          living a certain time?—he knows, as women say, that no man
103 Text |            a soul of the bad kind, knows nothing about him, neither
104 Text |            who his parents are; he knows only that he has got hold


Ion
    Part
105 Intro|   restricted to Homer, and that he knows nothing of inferior poets,
106 Intro|            And yet, surely, he who knows the superior ought to know
107 Text |       interpret him well unless he knows what he means? All this
108 Text |          speaking, will not he who knows the good know the bad speaker


Laches
    Part
109 Intro|         Nicias says, how little he knows the man, who will certainly
110 Intro|              Laches thinks that he knows this: (1) ‘He is courageous
111 Intro|          and is quite sure that he knows what courage is, if he could
112 Intro|          terrible.’ ‘But every man knows the things to be dreaded
113 Text |          and wisely calculates and knows that others will help him,
114 Text |         Laches, that the physician knows whether health or disease
115 Text |      physician or any other artist knows this, or any one indeed,
116 Text |           degree of wisdom that he knows things which but a few human
117 Text |         the soothsayer, because he knows better what is happening


Laws
    Book
118 2    |            We will suppose that he knows the good to be good, and
119 2    |          easily moulded by him who knows how to educate and fashion
120 3    |         and embraces that which he knows to be unrighteous and evil.
121 5    |            her that, for aught she knows, the world of the Gods below,
122 5    |  intemperate, the diseased. He who knows the temperate life will
123 5    |       confiscated, and let him who knows and does not inform be subject
124 9    |            a law and a penalty. He knows quite well that to such
125 9    |         the latter fancies that he knows all about matters of which
126 9    |          about matters of which he knows nothing. This second kind
127 9    |        purification and burial God knows, and about these the next
128 9    |           place, although a person knows in the abstract that this
129 10   |           rate in a truer; and who knows but that we shall hearken
130 10   |          laughing–stock of us. Who knows but we may be aiming at
131 10   | consequence to the whole, or if he knows that they are of consequence,
132 10   |           not to know this?—he who knows it not can never form any
133 11   |        hands of the Gods, God only knows; but I would have the first
134 11   |          these regulations, he who knows and can prove the fact,
135 11   |            the craftsman assuredly knows the value of his work. Wherefore,
136 11   |           at his hearth if only he knows how to show true service
137 11   |           poison or enchant others knows not what he is doing, either
138 11   |            to the trial; and if he knows and is willing to bear witness,
139 12   |          body, that is to say, who knows not that which we just now
140 12   |           health, or a general who knows not victory, or any others


Lysis
    Part
141 Intro|          others?’ ‘Yes, because he knows them, and does not know
142 Intro|          will trust him in what he knows, but not in what he does
143 Text |          to love and court him who knows.’ And indeed he went on
144 Text |          be is ridiculous, for who knows? This we do know, that in


Menexenus
    Part
145 Intro|            of Socrates, Plato, who knows so well how to give a hint,


Meno
    Part
146 Intro|        enquire either into what he knows or into what he does not
147 Text |          imagine, Meno, that a man knows evils to be evils and desires
148 Text |         either about that which he knows, or about that which he
149 Text |           does not know; for if he knows, he has no need to enquire;
150 Text |         and now he fancies that he knows how long a line is necessary
151 Text |            difficulty, and neither knows nor fancies that he knows.~
152 Text |          knows nor fancies that he knows.~MENO: True.~SOCRATES: Is
153 Text |         about that which the other knows, he will be just as good
154 Text |        thinks the truth, as he who knows the truth?~MENO: Exactly.~


Phaedo
    Part
155 Intro|      greater ones, but because she knows that only when calm and
156 Intro|      generation and destruction he knows nothing. But he has a confused
157 Text |            way perceived anything, knows not only that, but has a


Phaedrus
    Part
158 Intro|        just this,—that until a man knows the truth, and the manner
159 Intro|       makes is not his own, for he knows nothing of himself. (Compare
160 Text |       accept a non-lover before he knows what he is doing?~PHAEDRUS:
161 Text |            speak of what every one knows.~There will be more reason
162 Text |          And thus he loves, but he knows not what; he does not understand
163 Text |           in which the speaker who knows the truth may, without any
164 Text |     calling dialecticians; but God knows whether the name is right
165 Text |          Euripides and say that he knows how to make a very long
166 Text |          is a harmonist because he knows how to pitch the highest
167 Text |           actually before him, and knows that it is he, and can say
168 Text |           certain opinion;’—he who knows all this, and knows also
169 Text |            who knows all this, and knows also when he should speak
170 Text |           learned;—when, I say, he knows the times and seasons of
171 Text |       something which somebody who knows told me.~PHAEDRUS: Certainly.~
172 Text |       which can defend itself, and knows when to speak and when to
173 Text |         can we suppose that he who knows the just and good and honourable
174 Text |        said.~SOCRATES: Until a man knows the truth of the several


Philebus
    Part
175 Intro|           of ten years old already knows the essentials of morals: ‘
176 Text |          without pleasure; and who knows whether this may not be
177 Text |      divine circle and sphere, and knows nothing of our human spheres
178 Text |          mean?~SOCRATES: Every man knows it.~PROTARCHUS: What?~SOCRATES:
179 Text |     PROTARCHUS: What?~SOCRATES: He knows that any want of measure


Protagoras
    Part
180 Text |           I take him to be one who knows wise things, he replied,
181 Text |          is that which the Sophist knows and makes his disciple know?~
182 Text |         any experienced friend who knows what is good to be eaten
183 Text |            this reason. Because he knows that good and evil of this
184 Text |           very stupid; and when he knows justice (which is the health
185 Text |            allow a man, if he only knows the difference of good and
186 Text |            a man should do what he knows to be evil when he ought
187 Text |         Yes.~Then the wisdom which knows what are and are not dangers


The Republic
    Book
188 1    |          how can anyone answer who knows, and says that he knows,
189 1    |            knows, and says that he knows, just nothing; and who,
190 1    |          know and can tell what he knows. Will you then kindly answer,
191 2    |            pilot or physician, who knows intuitively his own powers
192 2    |          if we neglect them no one knows what awaits us. ~He proceeded:
193 2    |      forgive them, because he also knows that men are not just of
194 3    |       violence and fierceness, and knows no other way of dealing;
195 5    |             intending to do heaven knows what; and if you don't prepare
196 5    |            the mind of the one who knows has knowledge, and that
197 5    |            him). ~I answer that he knows something. ~Something that
198 5    |           is relative to being and knows being. But before I proceed
199 7    |            rightly or wrongly, God knows. But, whether true or false,
200 7    |            of them. For when a man knows not his own first principle,
201 7    |         also constructed out of he knows not what, how can he imagine
202 7    |        this, you would say that he knows neither the idea of good
203 7    |             and then again when he knows? Or shall I guess for you? ~
204 10   |            other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and,
205 10   |        that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things
206 10   |           things else that anybody knows, and every single thing
207 10   |      cannot compose well unless he knows his subject, and that he
208 10   |     imitator or maker of the image knows nothing of true existence;
209 10   |      nothing of true existence; he knows appearances only. Am I not
210 10   |        them; only the horseman who knows how to use them-he knows
211 10   |           knows how to use them-he knows their right form. ~Most
212 10   | instructions? ~Of course. ~The one knows and therefore speaks with
213 10   |          he will gain from him who knows, by talking to him and being
214 10   |         associate with another who knows and gives him instructions


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
215 Text |            I suppose, a person who knows the art of war, but does
216 Text |            once more, a person who knows how to kill another or to
217 Text |           SOCRATES: And if any one knows how to ride or to shoot
218 Text |           what do you call him who knows what is best according to
219 Text |           you not speak of one who knows what is best in riding as
220 Text |          person does that which he knows or supposes that he knows,
221 Text |          knows or supposes that he knows, and the result is beneficial,


The Sophist
    Part
222 Intro|        Theaetetus, whom he already knows, and who is recommended
223 Intro|    satisfactorily with any one who knows? ‘Impossible.’ Then what
224 Intro|       imitator, who thinks that he knows, or the dissembler, who
225 Intro|      philosophy. Yet, as everybody knows, truth is not wholly the
226 Intro|     acquiesce in this aphorism. He knows of course that all things
227 Intro|           can attribute to what he knows to be erroneous, he might
228 Text |            person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this
229 Text |          and made to think that he knows only what he knows, and
230 Text |         that he knows only what he knows, and no more.~THEAETETUS:
231 Text |    rational manner against him who knows?~THEAETETUS: He cannot.~
232 Text |            when a man says that he knows all things, and can teach
233 Text |           and will pretend that he knows nothing of mirrors and streams,
234 Text |        further admit that the soul knows, and that being or essence
235 Text |         distinguished from him who knows?~THEAETETUS: True.~STRANGER:
236 Text |       creature, who thinks that he knows that which he only fancies;


The Statesman
    Part
237 Intro|            flying; and every idiot knows that the political animal
238 Intro|            question. But as nobody knows which they did, the question
239 Intro|          letters in words which he knows with the same letters in
240 Text |           in his work; he not only knows, but he also makes things
241 Text |            accoucheur; no one else knows that department of science.
242 Text |           They say that if any one knows how the ancient laws may
243 Text |            in imitation of him who knows, we call him a king; and
244 Text |          the art which is able and knows how to advise when we are


The Symposium
    Part
245 Intro|           final truth from one who knows nothing, and who, speaking
246 Text |         into the other; and he who knows how to eradicate and how
247 Text |       absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty
248 Text |            them, and then again he knows nothing and is ignorant


Theaetetus
    Part
249 Intro|        divine their future; and he knows that sympathy is the secret
250 Intro|          ignorant of that which he knows?’ No answer is given to
251 Intro|            true.’ ‘And he who sees knows?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘And he who remembers,
252 Intro|   remembers that which he sees and knows?’ ‘Very true.’ ‘But if he
253 Intro|          with the world; he hardly knows whether his neighbour is
254 Intro|            his adversaries (for he knows no evil of any one); and
255 Intro|      serviceable knave, who hardly knows how to wear his cloak,—still
256 Intro|  impression of neither; or when he knows one and does not know the
257 Intro|           of the other; or when he knows neither; or when he perceives
258 Intro|           or when he perceives and knows both, and identifies what
259 Intro|          he perceives with what he knows (this is still more impossible);
260 Intro|           when he confuses what he knows or perceives, or what he
261 Intro|        does not know, with what he knows, or what he knows and perceives
262 Intro|          what he knows, or what he knows and perceives with what
263 Intro|         and perceives with what he knows and perceives.~Theaetetus
264 Intro|       false opinion, or that a man knows what he does not know.~We
265 Intro|      knowledge. But how can he who knows the forms of knowledge and
266 Intro|          letters; yet not until he knows both can he be said to have
267 Intro|          written or oral, which he knows by experience to be trustworthy.
268 Intro|            his own observation. He knows distance because he is taught
269 Intro|          interest to him; he alone knows the secret which has been
270 Intro|          unseen world. Somehow, he knows not how, somewhere, he knows
271 Intro|       knows not how, somewhere, he knows not where, under this higher
272 Intro|          than every reflecting man knows or can easily verify for
273 Text |          to do my best. Now he who knows perceives what he knows,
274 Text |            knows perceives what he knows, and, as far as I can see
275 Text |            memory of that which he knows, not know that which he
276 Text |        definition holds, every man knows that which he has seen?~
277 Text |     SOCRATES: As thus: he who sees knows, as we say, that which he
278 Text |        also not know that which he knows?~THEODORUS: How shall we
279 Text |            the philosopher no more knows than he can tell, as they
280 Text |            is doing, but he hardly knows whether he is a man or an
281 Text |            his adversaries, for he knows no scandals of any one,
282 Text |            smartly and neatly, but knows not how to wear his cloak
283 Text |           of his neighbour that he knows nothing. From these men,
284 Text |           about something which he knows or does not know?~THEAETETUS:
285 Text |          He must.~SOCRATES: He who knows, cannot but know; and he
286 Text |        does he think that which he knows to be some other thing which
287 Text |          some other thing which he knows, and knowing both, is he
288 Text |          not know; for example, he knows neither Theaetetus nor Socrates,
289 Text |          he cannot suppose what he knows to be what he does not know,
290 Text |        does not know to be what he knows?~THEAETETUS: That would
291 Text |             When he thinks what he knows, sometimes to be what he
292 Text |            sometimes to be what he knows, and sometimes to be what
293 Text |        another occur, when he only knows one, and does not know,
294 Text |           does not know is what he knows; nor (2) that one thing
295 Text |            that something which he knows and perceives, and of which
296 Text |            something else which he knows and perceives, and of which
297 Text |            that something which he knows and perceives, and of which
298 Text |            something else which he knows; nor so long as these agree,
299 Text |        think that a thing which he knows and perceives is another
300 Text |          that some things which he knows, or which he perceives and
301 Text |         some other things which he knows and perceives; or that some
302 Text |          that some things which he knows and perceives, are other
303 Text |          are other things which he knows and perceives.~THEAETETUS:
304 Text |    perceive sensibly that which he knows.~THEAETETUS: True.~SOCRATES:
305 Text |            say, that when a person knows and perceives one of you,
306 Text |         some other person, whom he knows and perceives, and the knowledge
307 Text |           think one thing which he knows to be another thing which
308 Text |          be another thing which he knows; but this, as we said, was
309 Text |         may not know that which he knows;— which alternative do you
310 Text |            into something which he knows, as if he did not know it,
311 Text |           already admitted that he knows all numbers;—you have heard
312 Text |           we say, that although he knows, he comes back to himself
313 Text |           to learn what he already knows?~THEAETETUS: It would be
314 Text |           we have admitted that he knows all letters and all numbers?~
315 Text |         man not know that which he knows, but he may get a false
316 Text |          man’s not knowing what he knows, for we are not driven to
317 Text |          ignorant of that which he knows, not by reason of ignorance,
318 Text |          and he will fancy that he knows the things about which he
319 Text |            say, laughing, if a man knows the form of ignorance and
320 Text |          that one of them which he knows is the other which he knows?
321 Text |        knows is the other which he knows? or, if he knows neither
322 Text |          which he knows? or, if he knows neither of them, can he
323 Text |        think that the one which he knows not is another which he
324 Text |            not is another which he knows not? or, if he knows one
325 Text |            he knows not? or, if he knows one and not the other, can
326 Text |          he think the one which he knows to be the one which he does
327 Text |        know to be the one which he knows? or will you tell me that
328 Text |          own name; must not he who knows the syllable, know both
329 Text |            Certainly.~SOCRATES: He knows, that is, the S and O?~THEAETETUS:
330 Text |           e—can we suppose that he knows the first syllables of your
331 Text |          And in that case, when he knows the order of the letters


Timaeus
    Part
332 Intro|            prior to these God only knows, and he of men whom God
333 Intro|            unscientific person. He knows that the earth is revolving
334 Intro|    universe. This alone thinks and knows and is the ruler of the
335 Intro|           the human intellect—‘God knows the original qualities of
336 Text |       Critias, whom every Athenian knows to be no novice in the matters
337 Text |            prior to these God only knows, and he of men who is the