The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|       Socrates argues that he must believe in the gods because he believes
  2 Intro|           downright atheist cannot believe in the sons of gods or in
  3 Text |         that such enquirers do not believe in the existence of the
  4 Text |            extent I am inclined to believe that I am wise; whereas
  5 Text |       teach me something. Will you believe me? I am almost ashamed
  6 Text |            youth; and who does not believe in the gods of the state,
  7 Text |            and therefore that I do believe in gods, and am not an entire
  8 Text |          Do you mean that I do not believe in the godhead of the sun
  9 Text |         really think that I do not believe in any god?~I swear by Zeus
 10 Text |           I swear by Zeus that you believe absolutely in none at all.~
 11 Text |           none at all.~Nobody will believe you, Meletus, and I am pretty
 12 Text |        pretty sure that you do not believe yourself. I cannot help
 13 Text |             Did ever man, Meletus, believe in the existence of human
 14 Text |     interruption. Did ever any man believe in horsemanship, and not
 15 Text |           next question: Can a man believe in spiritual and divine
 16 Text |        indictment that I teach and believe in divine or spiritual agencies (
 17 Text |          for that); at any rate, I believe in spiritual agencies,—so
 18 Text |            affidavit; and yet if I believe in divine beings, how can
 19 Text |            say first that I do not believe in gods, and then again
 20 Text |           and then again that I do believe in gods; that is, if I believe
 21 Text |     believe in gods; that is, if I believe in demigods. For if the
 22 Text |         what human being will ever believe that there are no gods if
 23 Text |          you that the same men can believe in divine and superhuman
 24 Text |     superhuman things, and yet not believe that there are gods and
 25 Text |         And in this respect only I believe myself to differ from men
 26 Text |          the command of God; and I believe that no greater good has
 27 Text |         inclined to cry out; but I believe that to hear me will be
 28 Text |          should be teaching you to believe that there are no gods,
 29 Text |            far otherwise. For I do believe that there are gods, and
 30 Text |           which any of my accusers believe in them. And to you and
 31 Text |         decided in one day, then I believe that I should have convinced
 32 Text |            my tongue, you will not believe that I am serious; and if
 33 Text |           are still less likely to believe me. Yet I say what is true,


Charmides
    Part
 34 PreF |        there was an inclination to believe rather than to enquire.
 35 PreS |            am not one of those who believe Plato to have been a mystic
 36 Text |            should you not make him believe that you know a cure for
 37 Text |          the inscription was, as I believe, that the god speaks to
 38 Text |          itself. And of this, as I believe, you are very well aware:
 39 Text |         for wisdom or temperance I believe to be really a great good;
 40 Text |            the nature?—(not that I believe you.) And further, I am


Cratylus
    Part
 41 Intro|        Hermogenes, who is ready to believe anything that he is told,
 42 Intro|       unsavoury’ similes—he cannot believe that the world is like ‘
 43 Intro|           O, my dear Hermogenes, I believe that there was a power of
 44 Intro|           there were any names? ‘I believe, Socrates, that some power
 45 Intro|        state of motion and flux, I believe that they were mistaken;
 46 Intro|          unreal thing, nor will he believe that everything is in a
 47 Text |     talking nonsense; and indeed I believe that I myself did not know
 48 Text |           I think otherwise, and I believe you to be on the right track.~
 49 Text |       letters names.~HERMOGENES: I believe you are right.~SOCRATES:
 50 Text |             Yes, Hermogenes, and I believe that I caught the inspiration
 51 Text |           SOCRATES: And do you not believe with Anaxagoras, that mind
 52 Text |          in which Homer, and, as I believe, Hesiod also, tells of~‘
 53 Text |           to explain, for I do not believe that any single name could
 54 Text |           head only this moment: I believe that the primeval givers
 55 Text |          in the hope of making you believe in the originality of the
 56 Text |         any further.~HERMOGENES: I believe you to be in the right.~
 57 Text |        That, Socrates, I can quite believe.~SOCRATES: Well, but do
 58 Text |         CRATYLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES: I believe you may be right, but I
 59 Text |      CRATYLUS: How so?~SOCRATES: I believe that what you say may be
 60 Text |         view to correctness; for I believe that if we could always,
 61 Text |            do you say?~CRATYLUS: I believe that to be both the only
 62 Text |        other.~SOCRATES: But do you believe that in the discovery of
 63 Text |   discovery.~CRATYLUS: I certainly believe that the methods of enquiry
 64 Text |            the best. And any one I believe who would take the trouble
 65 Text |            known them?~CRATYLUS: I believe, Socrates, the true account
 66 Text |          of unreality; he will not believe that all things leak like


Critias
    Part
 67 Intro|           Mr. Grote is inclined to believe in the Egyptian poem of
 68 Text |         cultivated, as we may well believe, by true husbandmen, who


Crito
    Part
 69 Text |         sad and painful; not, as I believe, to yourself, but to all
 70 Text |           not know you and me will believe that I might have saved
 71 Text |         That argument, which, as I believe, is maintained by many persons


Euthydemus
    Part
 72 Intro|   extraordinary statement: he will believe if Euthydemus will tell
 73 Intro|           relation. Crito will not believe that Socrates has not improved
 74 Text |    SOCRATES: As to their origin, I believe that they are natives of
 75 Text |           others with them, whom I believe to be their disciples, and
 76 Text |       principal occupation; and we believe that we can impart it better
 77 Text |         found to be right, we will believe the rest. They fancied that
 78 Text |        they did.~This we could not believe. And Euthydemus said: You
 79 Text |        yourselves. And I do verily believe that there are few who are
 80 Text |         only; but if she be what I believe that she is, then follow


Euthyphro
    Part
 81 Text |      prosecuting you, for I cannot believe that you are the prosecutor
 82 Text |           Zeus, whether you really believe that they are true.~EUTHYPHRO:
 83 Text |        SOCRATES: And do you really believe that the gods fought with
 84 Text |          opinion.~EUTHYPHRO: But I believe, Socrates, that all the
 85 Text |           We should enquire; and I believe that the statement will


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 86 Text |      further acquisition?—I verily believe that you would choose death.
 87 Text |          Asiatic affairs, I do not believe that you would choose to
 88 Text |         great is the power which I believe myself to have over you
 89 Text |          from your own lips, never believe another man again.~ALCIBIADES:
 90 Text |            yet evil?~ALCIBIADES: I believe that you are right, Socrates.~
 91 Text |          as you are?~ALCIBIADES: I believe that I am to blame for not
 92 Text |         true rivals?~ALCIBIADES: I believe that you are right.~SOCRATES:
 93 Text |           of her own people. And I believe that even Lampido, the daughter
 94 Text |             ALCIBIADES: I entirely believe you; but what are the sort


Gorgias
    Part
 95 Intro|      saying, but I do not entirely believe you.’~That is because you
 96 Intro|            is this only because we believe that they will obtain an
 97 Intro|        wisdom, are of no value. We believe something to be for our
 98 Intro|         more than half-inclined to believe them (compare Phaedrus).
 99 Text |         SOCRATES: And yet I do not believe that you really mean to
100 Text |           you, Socrates, seriously believe what you are now saying
101 Text |        questions—(do you seriously believe that there is any truth
102 Text |            city. And if you do not believe me, and I show you the dagger,
103 Text |            or private— but can you believe that this mere doing as
104 Text |            and every man do really believe, that to do is a greater
105 Text |        they should. This is what I believe that you mean (and you must
106 Text |          professed statesman is, I believe, very much like that of
107 Text |        fable only, but which, as I believe, is a true tale, for I mean
108 Text |             which I have heard and believe, I draw the following inferences:—
109 Text |       fearful examples, most, as I believe, are taken from the class


Ion
    Part
110 Text |    laborious part of my art; and I believe myself able to speak about
111 Text |       fairly with me. But if, as I believe, you have no art, but speak


Laches
    Part
112 Text |           gladly assist you; and I believe that you, Laches, will be
113 Text |            discovery. And I really believe that they are able to educate


Laws
    Book
114 1    |           our friend here comes, I believe they would say that Apollo
115 1    |    Athenian. And do you, Cleinias, believe, as Homer tells, that every
116 1    |        Cleinias of Cnosus do, as I believe, entirely agree with you.
117 1    |           is right or wrong. But I believe that I can tell better than
118 1    |      practice of the god whom they believe to have been their lawgiver.
119 1    |           experience. And I do not believe that either a Cretan, or
120 2    |            likely.~Athenian. And I believe that we old men would have
121 2    |            I suspect, unwilling to believe that he is miserable rather
122 3    |   understand you.~Athenian. Do you believe that there is any truth
123 3    |           Every one is disposed to believe them.~Athenian. Let us consider
124 3    |       birth of Dionysus, called, I believe, “dithyrambs.” And they
125 4    |         why am I disquieted, for I believe that the same principle
126 4    |           do likewise?~Cleinias. I believe that he would.~Athenian. “
127 4    |            but because I certainly believe that upon such service or
128 7    |           direct you about them? I believe that he will be in great
129 7    |         until now, and which, as I believe, have been inspired by Heaven,
130 8    |          temperance? Who will ever believe this?—or rather, who will
131 9    |    intolerable—not to speak what I believe to be the truth would be
132 9    |            and to the sufferer. We believe those for whom we are legislating
133 9    |         though he were too wise to believe in them, requires some extreme
134 10   |            Hellenes and barbarians believe in them.~Athenian. I fear,
135 10   |     cooking up of words and a make–believe.~Cleinias. One such teacher,
136 10   |        speak of those who will not believe the tales which they have
137 10   |           there is great reason to believe that this nature, unperceived
138 10   |           and makes you honour and believe in them. But the fortunes
139 10   |        with them, you have come to believe that they exist indeed,
140 10   |    punishment. For he who does not believe in Gods, and yet has a righteous
141 10   |     monstrous natures who not only believe that there are no Gods,
142 11   |            And we shall do well to believe the common tradition which
143 11   |            and so ancient, we must believe them, and we must also believe
144 11   |     believe them, and we must also believe the lawgivers, who tell
145 11   |           termed, and makes others believe that they above all persons
146 11   |         readily persuade others to believe him. And when men are disturbed
147 12   |          portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence
148 12   |         the sepulchre. Now we must believe the legislator when he tells
149 12   |           things which lead men to believe in the Gods, as we have


Lysis
    Part
150 Text |          is the capture of them?~I believe you.~What should you say
151 Text |           and sit down and talk, I believe that he will come of his
152 Text |     replied.~And we were saying, I believe, that the body being neither


Menexenus
    Part
153 Text |     election until tomorrow, but I believe that either Archinus or
154 Text |    Pericles spoke, but which, as I believe, she composed.~MENEXENUS:


Meno
    Part
155 Text |         MENO: Yes, I should; and I believe that I understand your meaning.~
156 Text |            Am I not right?~MENO: I believe that you are.~SOCRATES:
157 Text |            you so slow of heart to believe that knowledge is virtue?~
158 Text |            money? Indeed, I cannot believe you; for I know of a single
159 Text |           the case at Athens, as I believe that you know.~SOCRATES:
160 Text |          in our view. But I cannot believe, Socrates, that there are
161 Text |          what they say.~MENO: So I believe.~SOCRATES: And may we not,


Parmenides
    Part
162 Intro|         the publication.’ ‘I quite believe you,’ said Socrates; ‘but
163 Intro|        ideas themselves, nor can I believe that one and many, like
164 Intro|        things like these are, as I believe, only what they appear to
165 Text |           way, and would fain make believe that he is telling us something


Phaedo
    Part
166 Intro|       subject,’ we are inclined to believe that the fewer our words
167 Text |        company. For I could hardly believe that I was present at the
168 Text |        quite understand. Yet I too believe that the gods are our guardians,
169 Text |      matter among ourselves: Do we believe that there is such a thing
170 Text |       masters in this world, for I believe that I shall equally find
171 Text |         world. But most men do not believe this saying; if then I succeed
172 Text |      incredulous of mortals, yet I believe that he is sufficiently
173 Text |          body, until she is led to believe that the truth only exists
174 Text |          sorrow, although I do not believe this to be true of them
175 Text |        speaking like a book, but I believe that what I am saying is
176 Text |       notions of geographers, as I believe on the authority of one
177 Text |          one, said Simmias.~Also I believe that the earth is very vast,
178 Text |         smile:—I cannot make Crito believe that I am the same Socrates


Phaedrus
    Part
179 Intro|          of Plato.~Thus far we may believe that Plato was serious in
180 Intro|         Something like this we may believe to have passed before Plato’
181 Text |            if I could.~SOCRATES: I believe that I know Phaedrus about
182 Text |            until, by the dog, as I believe, he had simply learned by
183 Text |            I will do as I say; but believe me, Socrates, I did not
184 Text |          playing near.~SOCRATES: I believe that the spot is not exactly
185 Text |          tell me, Socrates, do you believe this tale?~SOCRATES: The
186 Text |        country. Though I do indeed believe that you have found a spell
187 Text |          the injury of neither.~‘I believe that I have said enough;
188 Text |           marvellous, and I do not believe that there is any one of
189 Text |           you. And now I do verily believe that you have been the cause
190 Text |           in that, and therefore I believe you.~PHAEDRUS: Speak, and
191 Text |         necessity to him.’~You may believe this, but not unless you
192 Text |        There is time enough. And I believe that the grasshoppers chirruping
193 Text |          art, he who says ‘I don’t believe you’ has the better of him.
194 Text |    Certainly, he does.~SOCRATES: I believe that he has a clever and
195 Text |           comparison of him. And I believe that he will not be satisfied


Philebus
    Part
196 Intro|          of whom I was speaking, I believe to be real. These unmixed
197 Intro|          enjoyment. They could not believe that what they were always
198 Text |            beginning, but is, as I believe, an everlasting quality
199 Text |        thinking, Protarchus, and I believe that some God has befriended
200 Text |     greatest moment.~PROTARCHUS: I believe that you are right, Socrates;
201 Text |     coalesce in one.~PROTARCHUS: I believe that to be quite true.~SOCRATES:
202 Text |   PROTARCHUS: He who would make us believe pleasure to be a good is
203 Text |        common term, thus making us believe in the unity of that art;
204 Text |             and I will make what I believe to be a fair summary of


Protagoras
    Part
205 Text |       beautiful, as you say, and I believe you; and also Critias the
206 Text |          anybody of his own age. I believe that he aspires to political
207 Text |            of the Sophist is, as I believe, of great antiquity; but
208 Text |           not my way, for I do not believe that they effected their
209 Text |           A teacher of this sort I believe myself to be, and above
210 Text |      speaking, some one—Critias, I believe—went on to say: O Prodicus
211 Text |            said: I also incline to believe, Protagoras, that this was
212 Text | voluntarily. For no wise man, as I believe, will allow that any human
213 Text |        happens to occur to them?~I believe, I said, that they may be
214 Text |           diseases and the like?~I believe, said Protagoras, that the
215 Text |         all men of your age; and I believe that you will become very


The Republic
    Book
216 1    |           Shall I tell you whose I believe the saying to be? ~Whose? ~
217 1    |           saying to be? ~Whose? ~I believe that Periander or Perdiccas
218 1    |        without trembling. Indeed I believe that if I had not fixed
219 1    |   repeating what you are saying, I believe. But let us consider: Have
220 1    |       convinced, and that I do not believe injustice to be more gainful
221 1    |           your real mind; for I do believe that you are now in earnest
222 1    |    incapable of action. That, as I believe, is the truth of the matter,
223 2    |          he is unjust. For all men believe in their hearts that injustice
224 2    |          order to bring out what I believe to be his meaning. Parents
225 2    |           be consistent, then, and believe both or neither. If the
226 2    |            own arguments. And I do believe that you are not convinced-this
227 2    |      relatives. If they would only believe us we would tell them that
228 3    |            violent reaction. ~So I believe. ~Then persons of worth,
229 3    |         his anger. Neither will we believe or acknowledge Achilles
230 3    |           impiety. As little can I believe the narrative of his insolence
231 3    |         pyre; of all this I cannot believe that he was guilty, any
232 3    |          can allow our citizens to believe that he, the wise Cheiron'
233 3    |           let us equally refuse to believe, or allow to be repeated,
234 3    |         all that he can to make us believe that the speaker is not
235 3    |          Yes, I said, and I do not believe that there were any such
236 3    |           affirmed by us, will not believe them when they tell us both;
237 3    |        extreme case. ~That I quite believe. ~The very exercises and
238 3    |            real object of them? ~I believe, I said, that the teachers
239 3    |            and have made the world believe), though not in our time,
240 3    | possibility of making our citizens believe in it? ~Not in the present
241 3    |          their sons may be made to believe in the tale, and their sons'
242 4    |          tells me, and I can quite believe him; he says that when modes
243 4    |      Certainly. ~The meaning is, I believe, that in the human soul
244 4    |            perceive a track, and I believe that the quarry will not
245 4    |       confuse us, or incline us to believe that the same thing at the
246 4    |            a sort of thing which I believe that you never observed
247 5    |          to utter. For I do indeed believe that to be an involuntary
248 5    |       elder leaders and escape. ~I believe that you are right, he said. ~
249 6    |     suppose not, I said; and yet I believe that we might have had a
250 6    |            will ever be induced to believe in the existence of absolute
251 6    |            that the many refuse to believe; for they have never seen
252 7    |      replied, which may be hard to believe, yet, from another point
253 8    |          lofty tragic vein, making believe to be in earnest? ~How would
254 8    |           a watch against them. ~I believe that you have rightly conceived
255 8    |           State. ~By all means. ~I believe that oligarchy follows next
256 8    |            who does not know would believe how much greater is the
257 8    |             however, was not, as I believe, your question-you rather
258 9    |      necessary connection, can you believe that he would strike the
259 9    |            Yes, indeed, he said; I believe that he would. ~Truly, then,
260 9    |           not, then, be induced to believe that pure pleasure is the
261 9    |    intermediate state, they firmly believe that they have reached the
262 9    |           only the outer hull, may believe the beast to be a single
263 9    |            idea only; for I do not believe that there is such a one
264 10   |            nature one only. ~So we believe. ~Shall we, then, speak
265 10   |    convinced by the argument, as I believe that anyone else would have
266 10   |            us-any more than we can believe the soul, in her truest


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
267 Text |       greatest of all things, as I believe. Tell me, do you not suppose
268 Text |         you mean?~SOCRATES: Do you believe that a man must be either
269 Text |         from ophthalmia? Or do you believe that a man may labour under
270 Text |       quite the contrary notion. I believe that if the God whom you
271 Text |       Alcibiades, who, seeing as I believe, his friends foolishly praying
272 Text |   conceivable case?~SOCRATES: So I believe:—you do not think so?~ALCIBIADES:
273 Text |          sorry voyage:— he will, I believe, hurry through the brief
274 Text |        asked for it?~ALCIBIADES: I believe that you are right.~SOCRATES:


The Seventh Letter
    Part
275 Text |        should in very truth always believe those ancient and sacred
276 Text |             after a single lesson, believe himself to know the matter,
277 Text |            from others, or does he believe my teaching to be worthless,


The Sophist
    Part
278 Intro|         obstinate persons who will believe in nothing which they cannot
279 Intro|          words, and induce them to believe him. But as they grow older,
280 Intro|           And when we are asked to believe the Hegelian to be the sole
281 Intro|         expel it. We do not easily believe that we have within the
282 Intro|          was naturally inclined to believe that his own thoughts were
283 Intro|         even when he has ceased to believe in him. He returns again
284 Text |           is obvious enough; for I believe that we have discovered
285 Text |    THEAETETUS: I will.~STRANGER: I believe that I can see how we shall
286 Text |            Sophists make young men believe in their supreme and universal
287 Text |             STRANGER: He will make believe to have his eyes shut, or
288 Text |             can we ever be made to believe that motion and life and
289 Text |  discoveries of theirs, which they believe to be the height of wisdom.~


The Statesman
    Part
290 Intro|         were naturally inclined to believe that the fortunes of mankind
291 Intro|   discussed; youth is too ready to believe in them; age to disparage
292 Text |   Certainly.~STRANGER: And this we believe to be the origin of the
293 Text |           and can never be made to believe that any one can be worthy
294 Text |           all other sciences, they believe themselves to have acquired


The Symposium
    Part
295 Intro|           and Pelopidas, if we may believe writers cited anonymously
296 Intro|        licentiousness. Such we may believe to have been the tie which
297 Text |           you ask to be informed I believe that I am not ill-prepared
298 Text |            and of others; and I do believe that you pity all mankind,
299 Text |      himself without any reason. I believe that he will soon appear;
300 Text |          poets here tell us, and I believe them; and not only medicine
301 Text |            women everywhere; and I believe that if our loves were perfectly
302 Text |            not,’ she said, ‘if you believe that love is of the immortal,
303 Text |         friend, whether you really believe what Socrates was just now
304 Text |         all things, and in which I believe that you can help me better
305 Text |           to set us at variance.~I believe you are right, said Agathon,


Theaetetus
    Part
306 Intro|      godless persons, who will not believe what they ‘cannot hold in
307 Intro|           the obstinate people who believe in nothing which they cannot
308 Intro|    argument to those who will only believe ‘what they can hold in their
309 Text | predictions, had been fulfilled. I believe that he had seen him a little
310 Text |          to your account of him; I believe that he left a considerable
311 Text |         however, to explain what I believe to be my meaning: When you
312 Text |         upside down.~THEAETETUS: I believe, Socrates, that you have
313 Text |            we admit them at all. I believe that you follow me, Theaetetus;
314 Text |  uninitiated I mean the people who believe in nothing but what they
315 Text |         truth of their opinion who believe his own opinion to be false;
316 Text |      precision is necessary, and I believe that the answer which you
317 Text |            do not perceive? That I believe to be my meaning, I shall


Timaeus
    Part
318 Intro|        they give no proof, we must believe them as is customary. They
319 Intro|            modern, are inclined to believe, Plato thought that the
320 Intro|           ancestors, and we should believe them as custom requires,’
321 Intro|         were as little disposed to believe in the truth of it as the
322 Intro|        Egyptian priest, nor can we believe that Solon wrote a poem
323 Intro|         must conform to custom and believe them.’ ‘Our creators well
324 Text |           his own state, and, as I believe, has scaled the heights
325 Text |         must conform to custom and believe them. In this manner, then,
326 Text |            compelled to use; but I believe that you will be able to