The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|             is not so overwise as to imagine that he knows whether death
  2 Text |          wise, for my hearers always imagine that I myself possess the
  3 Text |              when, as I conceive and imagine, God orders me to fulfil
  4 Text |             civil rights; and he may imagine, and others may imagine,
  5 Text |              imagine, and others may imagine, that he is inflicting a
  6 Text |             words.~Now do you really imagine that I could have survived


Charmides
    Part
  7 Text |          still a child, and I should imagine that by this time he must
  8 Text |               not the quietest, as I imagine, and he who with difficulty
  9 Text |              at him and said—~Do you imagine, Charmides, that the author
 10 Text |             no disgrace.’ Now do you imagine that if he had meant by
 11 Text |          curious to know whether you imagine that temperate men are ignorant
 12 Text |              all the senses: can you imagine that there is any sense
 13 Text |            Certainly not.~Or can you imagine a wish which wishes for


Cratylus
    Part
 14 Intro|            flights of humour.~We can imagine a character having a profound
 15 Intro|          task, Hermogenes, which you imagine.~‘I should be more readily
 16 Intro|              of Cratylus; and let us imagine that some God makes them
 17 Intro|            tell? Nevertheless we can imagine a stage of human society
 18 Intro|    apprehends the meaning: or we may imagine that the cry is repeated
 19 Intro|             last complete.~So we may imagine the speech of man to have
 20 Text |              To the latter, I should imagine.~SOCRATES: Might not that
 21 Text |             with his name. You might imagine that some person who wanted
 22 Text |              at the moment, I should imagine that those who first used
 23 Text |          People in general appear to imagine that the term Hades is connected
 24 Text |           spells. Such a charm, as I imagine, is the God able to infuse
 25 Text |             says.~SOCRATES: I should imagine that the name Hermes has
 26 Text |      language and speech; and we may imagine him dictating to us the
 27 Text |             and round, and then they imagine that the world is going
 28 Text |         boulapteroun, and this, as I imagine, is improved into blaberon.~
 29 Text |          although there are some who imagine the day to be called emera
 30 Text |             be called?~HERMOGENES: I imagine, Socrates, that he must
 31 Text |              letter R, because, as I imagine, he had observed that the
 32 Text |             number, how can you ever imagine, my good friend, that you
 33 Text |         names, Socrates, as I should imagine, is to inform: the simple
 34 Text |           things leak like a pot, or imagine that the world is a man


Crito
    Part
 35 Text |        injure in return, as the many imagine; for we must injure no one
 36 Text |              the matter in this way:—Imagine that I am about to play
 37 Text |           far as in you lies? Do you imagine that a state can subsist


Euthydemus
    Part
 38 Intro|           invent laws of thought, or imagine that any single science
 39 Intro|              philosophers, whom they imagine to be their rivals. They
 40 Intro|           their own wisdom; for they imagine themselves to have all the
 41 Intro|            the Euthydemus, we should imagine a mental state in which
 42 Intro|              could be spoken. Let us imagine disputes carried on with
 43 Text |             of Sophists, as I should imagine. Of what country are they,
 44 Text |           the wise, Cleinias, as you imagine.~At these words the followers
 45 Text |             proceed to initiate you; imagine then that you have gone
 46 Text |        earnest?~I was led by this to imagine that they fancied us to
 47 Text |        please you equally well, as I imagine.~I certainly will not answer
 48 Text |          father?~Certainly, I did so imagine, said Ctesippus.~And do
 49 Text |            my sweet man, may perhaps imagine that they do not see; and
 50 Text |            is not the same; I should imagine that even a child will hardly


Euthyphro
    Part
 51 Text |          them.~EUTHYPHRO: And do you imagine, Socrates, that any benefit


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 52 Text |           SOCRATES: Well, but do you imagine that the many would differ
 53 Text |           opposed, you surely do not imagine that you know what is expedient
 54 Text |             with you.~SOCRATES: Then imagine, my dear fellow, that I
 55 Text |           not know it?~ALCIBIADES: I imagine not.~SOCRATES: Do you not
 56 Text |     illustration from sight, which I imagine to be the only one suitable


Gorgias
    Part
 57 Intro|             men have been too apt to imagine a right and wrong apart
 58 Intro|             another reapeth.’ We may imagine with Plato an ideal statesman
 59 Text |              I want you, Gorgias, to imagine that this question is asked
 60 Text |              by me, I would have you imagine that you are interrogated
 61 Text |             of curing another. For I imagine that there is no evil which
 62 Text |          answer, lest Gorgias should imagine that I am making fun of
 63 Text |             SOCRATES: And do you not imagine that the soul likewise has
 64 Text |               are as ridiculous as I imagine the politicians to be, when
 65 Text |       superior I mean better: do you imagine me to say, that if a rabble
 66 Text |          pained?~CALLICLES: I should imagine that the cowards are more
 67 Text |        Callicles, not to jest, or to imagine that I am jesting with you;
 68 Text |              the same nature? Do you imagine that Cinesias the son of
 69 Text |           certain time. And I should imagine that this is equally true


Ion
    Part
 70 Text |             to explain to you what I imagine to be the reason of this.


Laches
    Part
 71 Text |            And for this reason, as I imagine,—because a good decision
 72 Text |              conditions, as I should imagine.~LACHES: Very true.~SOCRATES:
 73 Text |             us in action, but not, I imagine, he who heard us talking
 74 Text |            no more than this. Do you imagine, Laches, that the physician
 75 Text |       fearless and senseless. Do you imagine that I should call little


Laws
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 76 1    |          would lay down? You seem to imagine that a well governed state
 77 1    |            times a brave warrior.” I imagine that you, too, must have
 78 1    |             him but ourselves, if we imagine that Lycurgus and Minos
 79 1    |            proxenus of your state. I imagine that from their earliest
 80 2    |              the question will be to imagine a festival at which there
 81 2    |          Cleinias. But do you really imagine, Stranger, that this is
 82 2    |         obscurely, and so led you to imagine that I was speaking of some
 83 2    |              we were right:—I should imagine that a drinking assembly
 84 3    |       unfortunate Hippolytus, do you imagine that the son, having a sense
 85 3    |             our subject.~Athenian. I imagine that Cyrus, though a great
 86 3    |           been said, and then let us imagine a State of which we will
 87 4    |           inland.~Cleinias. I should imagine, Stranger, that the city
 88 4    |             Cleinias. But how can we imagine that the citizens in general
 89 4    |             in order that he may not imagine his celibacy to bring ease
 90 4    |       preamble of a discourse. For I imagine that all this language of
 91 5    |              sea and land;—this they imagine to be the real object of
 92 6    |            of either. But how can we imagine that those who are brought
 93 6    |          same principle, he must not imagine that he will be permitted
 94 6    | administration of justice, is apt to imagine that he has no share in
 95 6    |           not find omissions? Do you imagine that there ever was a legislator
 96 6    |         enemies, and leading them to imagine that their safety is due
 97 7    |             similar principle we may imagine to hold good about the minds
 98 7    |              Athenian. Can any of us imagine a better mode of effecting
 99 7    |         priestesses. Suppose that we imagine this to be our law.~Cleinias.
100 7    |          young men to hear; I cannot imagine any better pattern than
101 7    |             I say is true, only just imagine that we had a similar notion
102 8    |              other?~Athenian. Do you imagine that I delay because I am
103 8    |              only be enforced. I can imagine some lusty youth who is
104 9    |            crime. I do not expect or imagine that any well–brought–up
105 9    |          another. Any one may easily imagine the questions which have
106 10   |            such as the law bids them imagine; and hence arise factions,
107 10   |           admit.~Athenian. But do we imagine carelessness and idleness
108 11   |            they are lifeless, yet we imagine that the living Gods have
109 12   |        nature set. Let the young man imagine that he hears in what has
110 12   |              of the Gods, and others imagine that they have no care of
111 12   |      opposite to that which the many imagine. For they think that those


Lysis
    Part
112 Text |         reason, I said; for I should imagine that your father Democrates,
113 Text |             their love; and yet they imagine either that they are not
114 Text |          meaning of the saying, as I imagine, is, that the good are like
115 Text |           fain be one of you, should imagine ourselves to be friends—


Menexenus
    Part
116 Text |          them, and all in a moment I imagine myself to have become a
117 Text |              then said. And you must imagine that you hear them saying


Meno
    Part
118 Intro|              of them as we sometimes imagine. Fixed ideas have taken
119 Text |          SOCRATES: And do you really imagine, Meno, that a man knows
120 Text |           recollection; and thus you imagine that you will involve me
121 Text |        learned themselves?~ANYTUS: I imagine that they learned of the
122 Text |              acquired by him—(do you imagine either of them to be given


Parmenides
    Part
123 Intro|             am sometimes disposed to imagine that there is nothing without
124 Intro|       question to answer.’ ‘I should imagine the conception of ideas
125 Intro|              the mind. We can easily imagine that among the Greek schools
126 Intro|        Parmenides justice, we should imagine similar aporiai raised on
127 Intro|             Him as He is? How can we imagine His relation to the world
128 Text |            an artificial work as you imagine; for what you speak of was
129 Text |           question?~What question?~I imagine that the way in which you
130 Text |        partakes of being, and try to imagine it apart from that of which,


Phaedo
    Part
131 Intro|            thousand years ago. Do we imagine that the wicked are suffering
132 Intro|             because we are unable to imagine differences of degree?—putting
133 Intro|           time. May we be allowed to imagine the minds of men everywhere
134 Intro|            to us as it was to him to imagine that our moral ideas are
135 Intro|            no more. Secondly, we may imagine them as they were at their
136 Text |           than himself? And I rather imagine that Cebes is referring
137 Text |            what that is which, as we imagine, is liable to be scattered,
138 Text |          indissoluble.~Yes; I should imagine so, said Cebes.~And the
139 Text |              not perished—you cannot imagine, he would say, that the
140 Text |               I have.~And do you not imagine, he said, that if there
141 Text |              he himself could hardly imagine the possibility of his ever
142 Text |        another point of view: Do you imagine that a harmony or any other
143 Text |            the best. For I could not imagine that when he spoke of mind
144 Text |              the heaven, in which we imagine that the stars move. But


Phaedrus
    Part
145 Intro|             common sense. But we can imagine the mind of Socrates in
146 Intro|             When we are once able to imagine the intense power which
147 Intro|            thirty tyrants? Who would imagine that Lysias, who is here
148 Text |           good Socrates? How can you imagine that my unpractised memory
149 Text |            right mind, would he ever imagine that the desires were good
150 Text |             so, Phaedrus, you really imagine that I am going to improve
151 Text |           come to nought. But people imagine that they know about the
152 Text |           such a life as any one can imagine and which I need not detail
153 Text |         known the nature of God, may imagine an immortal creature having
154 Text |       mistaken in your friend if you imagine that he is frightened at
155 Text |              laugh at us? They might imagine that we were slaves, who,
156 Text |      inspiration to me. For I do not imagine that I have any rhetorical
157 Text |          said of speeches. You would imagine that they had intelligence,


Philebus
    Part
158 Intro|             the mind could no longer imagine ‘Being’ as in a state of
159 Intro|              important part of them. Imagine, if you will, that Society
160 Intro|             they and their followers imagine. The thought of self and
161 Text |              and therefore you would imagine that she is one; and yet
162 Text |           answer to give; let us not imagine that a general puzzling
163 Text |           nor is likely, as I should imagine, to be chosen by any one
164 Text |     Protarchus; for surely we cannot imagine that of the four classes,
165 Text |            wisdom;—we cannot, I say, imagine that whereas the self-same
166 Text |            proceed?~SOCRATES: Let us imagine affections of the body which
167 Text |             be?~PROTARCHUS: I cannot imagine any other.~SOCRATES: But
168 Text |        Certainly.~SOCRATES: Might we imagine the process to be something
169 Text |            track of their dislike. I imagine that they would say something
170 Text |             must distinguish:—do not imagine that I mean to ask whether
171 Text |              goods of the mind; they imagine themselves to be much better
172 Text |          truth?~PROTARCHUS: I should imagine not.~SOCRATES: And now let
173 Text |            be easily answered; for I imagine that nothing can ever be


Protagoras
    Part
174 Intro|         notions of commentators, who imagine that Protagoras the Sophist
175 Text |            Then tell me, what do you imagine that he is?~I take him to
176 Text |              will further ask you to imagine, as an illustration, some
177 Text |        another flute-playing, do you imagine, Socrates, that the sons
178 Text |            great deal. For I used to imagine that no human care could
179 Text |           that said, but not, as you imagine, by me; for I only asked
180 Text |              Protagoras, which, as I imagine, is more than human and
181 Text |             tell you, I said, what I imagine to be the real meaning of
182 Text |          wear short cloaks; for they imagine that these are the practices
183 Text |            Pittacus thus (and let us imagine Pittacus to be speaking
184 Text |            answer.~So I said: Do not imagine, Protagoras, that I have
185 Text |            arguing you might come to imagine that strength is wisdom.


The Republic
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186 1    |             however, so much as they imagine. I might answer them as
187 1    |          debt-that is what you would imagine him to say? ~Yes. ~And are
188 1    |         piece of gold, you would not imagine that we were "knocking under
189 1    |             able, never. ~And do you imagine, I said, that I am such
190 1    |              master; and you further imagine that the rulers of States,
191 1    |           punishment. And this, as I imagine, is the reason why the forwardness
192 1    |             nations; but perhaps you imagine me to be talking of cutpurses. ~
193 2    |               Indeed I do; nor can I imagine any theme about which a
194 2    |        unjust will best appear if we imagine something of this kind:
195 2    |              are right. If you could imagine anyone obtaining this power
196 2    |       excellent proposal. ~And if we imagine the State in process of
197 2    |           with one another. I cannot imagine that they are more likely
198 2    |          replied. ~Well, but can you imagine that God will be willing
199 3    |            another good man-I should imagine that he will like to personate
200 4    |         class happy-and then, as you imagine, the whole State would be
201 4    |      subjects? ~In both, as I should imagine, he replied. ~Do you observe
202 4    |            it would be ridiculous to imagine that this quality, when
203 4    |       hereafter fall out by the way. Imagine the case of a man who is
204 4    |           yourself, nor, as I should imagine, in anyone else? ~Certainly
205 5    |            discord" and "war," and I imagine that there is also a difference
206 6    |         which are found in pictures. Imagine then a fleet or a ship in
207 6    |             the multitude? ~I should imagine not, he replied. ~O my friends,
208 6    |           not, he said. ~You have to Imagine, then, that there are two
209 6    |     understand? ~Yes, I understand. ~Imagine, now, the other section,
210 7    |           reply? And you may further imagine that his instructor is pointing
211 7    |              this miserable manner. ~Imagine once more, I said, such
212 7    |            manner? But he will never imagine that the proportions of
213 7    |           and there are others, as I imagine, which may be left to wiser
214 7    |            of reasoning. ~But do you imagine that men who are unable
215 7    |           knows not what, how can he imagine that such a fabric of convention
216 7    |               by way of parallel, to imagine a supposititious son who
217 7    |              the discovery, I should imagine that he would diminish his
218 8    |       discord first arose"? Shall we imagine them in solemn mockery,
219 8    |    government of anything? ~I should imagine so. ~Except a city?-or would
220 8    |              cultivation, I said. ~I imagine not, he said; had he been
221 8    |            pleasure-then, as you may imagine, the change will begin of
222 8    |            what we are doing, let us imagine democracy to be divided,
223 9    |          father's principles. ~I can imagine him. ~Then you must further
224 9    |                Then you must further imagine the same thing to happen
225 9    |              you were to tell me. ~I imagine, I said, at the next step
226 9    |               Very true, I said. But imagine one of these owners, the
227 9    |          middle region, would he not imagine that he is going up; and
228 9    |            whence he has come, would imagine that he is already in the
229 9    |            taken back again he would imagine, and truly imagine, that
230 9    |             would imagine, and truly imagine, that he was descending? ~
231 9    |            him to the worst? Who can imagine that a man who sold his
232 10   |             I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature
233 10   |           the tradition. But can you imagine, Glaucon, that if Homer
234 10   |              a mere imitator-can you imagine, I say, that he would not
235 10   |           judge only from his words, imagine that if he speaks of cobbling,
236 10   |       involuntary, on which, as they imagine, a good or bad result has
237 10   |            ever reflect, as I should imagine, that from the evil of other


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
238 Text |      Certainly.~SOCRATES: Do you not imagine, then, that a man ought
239 Text |            tyrant:—in such a case, I imagine, you would depart full of
240 Text |         greatest evils. No man would imagine that he would do so; he
241 Text |             of the riddle is this, I imagine:—By ‘badly’ Homer meant ‘


The Sophist
    Part
242 Intro|         attitude of mind which could imagine that falsehood had no existence,
243 Intro|              And, indeed, how can we imagine that perfect being is a
244 Intro|         minds; and we may be told to imagine the minds of all mankind
245 Intro|        Pantheism we are unwilling to imagine that the meagre categories
246 Intro|             expanse of heaven can we imagine that a few meagre categories
247 Intro|              by it; and we can dimly imagine how this universal frame
248 Text |               Stranger, is, I should imagine, not the teaching of handicraft
249 Text |     understood.~THEAETETUS: I should imagine this to be the case.~STRANGER:
250 Text |              the reason, as I should imagine, is that they are supposed
251 Text |              is not possible, let us imagine them to be better than they
252 Text |           with perfect being? Can we imagine that being is devoid of
253 Text |            THEAETETUS: The one, as I imagine, is false, and the other


The Statesman
    Part
254 Intro|        delegated. And let us further imagine, that when the term of their
255 Intro|             temperance, which we may imagine to be the woof. These she
256 Text |             YOUNG SOCRATES: I should imagine so.~STRANGER: And it may
257 Text |          this case also, as I should imagine, the answer would be easy.
258 Text |          whole art of war is, can we imagine any which is superior to


The Symposium
    Part
259 Text |            indistinct indeed, if you imagine that the occasion was recent;
260 Text |     yourselves. But on this occasion imagine that you are our hosts,
261 Text |             at first, the truth as I imagine is, that whether such practices
262 Text |         tender and fair, as the many imagine him; and he is rough and
263 Text |           was very natural, and as I imagine from what you say, has arisen
264 Text |             Socrates, is not, as you imagine, the love of the beautiful
265 Text |             shall be eternal. Do you imagine that Alcestis would have
266 Text |       perfectly astonishing. You may imagine Brasidas and others to have
267 Text |            like Achilles; or you may imagine Nestor and Antenor to have


Theaetetus
    Part
268 Intro|       reading of them, we are apt to imagine that the truth is only spoken
269 Intro|  cut-and-dried argument; nor does he imagine that a great philosophical
270 Intro|           and therefore you need not imagine that I am in love with him;
271 Intro|          Even in sleep, did you ever imagine that odd was even? Or did
272 Intro|           and the forms of ignorance imagine one to be the other? Is
273 Intro|             our own faculties, or to imagine the relation or adaptation
274 Intro|            analysis by attempting to imagine the world first dawning
275 Intro|          objects, and we can no more imagine the mind without the one
276 Intro|            recollect and also feebly imagine at one and the same time.
277 Intro|             nature, and delighted to imagine angels and spirits wandering
278 Intro|              know,’ ‘I remember,’ ‘I imagine,’ ‘I dream,’ ‘I act,’ ‘I
279 Text |      dreamers think truly, when they imagine, some of them that they
280 Text |     appearance. They would say, as I imagine—Can that which is wholly
281 Text |              therefore please not to imagine that I am to defend by every
282 Text |              minds, conceiving, as I imagine, that any such principle
283 Text |             by them at leisure, as I imagine, to those disciples of theirs
284 Text |              and no longer foolishly imagine that some things are at
285 Text |           SOCRATES: I would have you imagine, then, that there exists
286 Text |              then by any possibility imagine in his own mind that Theaetetus
287 Text |       everywhere.~THEAETETUS: Let us imagine such an aviary—and what
288 Text |            do not teach them. Do you imagine that there are any teachers
289 Text |             one else? Suppose that I imagine Theaetetus to be a man who


Timaeus
    Part
290 Intro|            eternal archetype. For to imagine that the archetype was created
291 Intro|           becomes irregular. You may imagine a position of the body in
292 Intro|         physical phenomena. He could imagine cities which had existed
293 Intro|        around the earth. He does not imagine the earth to be the centre
294 Intro|              an altered form. We can imagine two worlds, one of which
295 Intro|             the other; but we cannot imagine an intellectual world which
296 Intro|            the heavenly bodies move. Imagine these as in a Pythagorean
297 Intro|             it would be difficult to imagine that Plato was unaware of
298 Intro|             speculation. He does not imagine the world of sense to be
299 Text |              child, but they were to imagine that they were all one family;
300 Text |              account, for they would imagine that the union was a mere
301 Text |            upside down, as you might imagine a person who is upside down
302 Text |            present employing. Do not imagine, any more than I can bring
303 Text |           than I can bring myself to imagine, that I should be right
304 Text |              third to water. We must imagine all these to be so small
305 Text |            attendant on them. Let us imagine the causes of every affection,