The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |           is at this time a Parian philosopher residing in Athens, of whom
  2 Text |            orders me to fulfil the philosopher’s mission of searching into


Charmides
    Part
  3 PreS |          theme as the meeting of a philosopher and a tyrant, once imagined
  4 PreS |       so-called works stand to the philosopher himself. There is of course
  5 PreS |    gracious to the modern physical philosopher, and the more acceptable
  6 Text |          can tell you that he is a philosopher already, and also a considerable
  7 Text |           is what Critias, or some philosopher has told you.~Some one else,


Cratylus
    Part
  8 Intro|         language). He is at once a philosopher and a sophist; for while
  9 Intro|          Hellenic notions, and the philosopher is his natural advisor.
 10 Intro|         Cratylus, the Heracleitean philosopher, and Hermogenes, the brother
 11 Intro|      Heracleitus—that antediluvian philosopher who cannot walk twice in


Critias
    Part
 12 Intro|            the Sophist, Statesman, Philosopher, was never completed. Timaeus
 13 Intro|      genius the critic and natural philosopher of modern times are not
 14 Intro|        chance word of some poet or philosopher has given birth to endless


Crito
    Part
 15 Intro|         one light only, not as the philosopher, fulfilling a divine mission
 16 Text |           justified in this? Has a philosopher like you failed to discover


Euthydemus
    Part
 17 Intro|        only good, he must become a philosopher, or lover of wisdom.’ ‘That
 18 Intro|        that Cleinias must become a philosopher. And philosophy is the possession
 19 Intro|            amphibious animal, half philosopher, half politician; one of
 20 Text |         here that he ought to be a philosopher and study virtue. Exhibit


Gorgias
    Part
 21 Intro|          he is neither sophist nor philosopher, but man of the world, and
 22 Intro|     position of the lawyer and the philosopher in the Theaetetus).~There
 23 Intro|        have found in Callicles the philosopher’s touchstone; and he is
 24 Intro|          companion portrait of the philosopher in the Theaetetus; and at
 25 Intro|          he is a poet as well as a philosopher; or to remark that he is
 26 Intro|            are. Just as the actual philosopher falls short of the one wise
 27 Intro|           in which they moved. The philosopher is naturally unfitted for
 28 Intro|         impaled or on the rack the philosopher may be happy (compare Republic).
 29 Intro|           of the world, and of the philosopher, to the mob of politicians: (
 30 Intro|          the dog, who is your only philosopher: the grotesque and rather
 31 Intro|        shores of the lake; and the philosopher alone is said to have got
 32 Intro|        ourselves to blame; and the philosopher must acknowledge, however
 33 Text |         are laws?~SOCRATES: Ho! my philosopher, is that your line?~CALLICLES:
 34 Text |        likely dead; I have heard a philosopher say that at this moment
 35 Text |             But although you are a philosopher you seem to me never to
 36 Text |         most likely to have been a philosopher who has done his own work,


Laches
    Part
 37 Intro|          the soothsayer but of the philosopher. And all knowledge will
 38 Text |       knowledge.~LACHES: You are a philosopher, Nicias; of that I am aware:


Lysis
    Part
 39 Intro|          indifferent’ position the philosopher or lover of wisdom stands:


Meno
    Part
 40 Intro|            or man of action to the philosopher, or the virtue of custom
 41 Intro|          higher nature of man. The philosopher only has knowledge, and
 42 Intro|           one another; the ancient philosopher had the same truth latent
 43 Intro|       popular teacher and the true philosopher. He seems, like Aristophanes,
 44 Intro|         stronger opposition to the philosopher. They are no longer allowed
 45 Intro|           grand description of the philosopher in Republic VI, as the spectator
 46 Intro|           than a generation is the philosopher Leibnitz, who after deepening
 47 Text |            truth. And if he were a philosopher of the eristic and antagonistic


Parmenides
    Part
 48 Intro|   individuals. But the early Greek philosopher never clearly saw that true
 49 Intro|          Plato and the most subtle philosopher of the nineteenth century


Phaedo
    Part
 50 Intro|       Socrates.’ ‘Why, is he not a philosopher?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Then he will be
 51 Intro|          convincing the court.~The philosopher desires death—which the
 52 Intro|           of soul and body—and the philosopher desires such a separation.
 53 Intro|           her purity?~Besides, the philosopher has notions of good and
 54 Intro|      Republic, Meno.) But only the philosopher who departs pure is permitted
 55 Intro|           or Christian mystic, the philosopher is seeking to withdraw from
 56 Intro|        children indicates that the philosopher is not ‘made of oak or rock.’
 57 Intro|          Philolaus the Pythagorean philosopher of Thebes. Simmias is described
 58 Text |          Socrates,—is not Evenus a philosopher?~I think that he is, said
 59 Text |         his own life, but that the philosopher will be ready to follow
 60 Text |        just now attributing to the philosopher? That the wisest of men
 61 Text |         prove to you that the real philosopher has reason to be of good
 62 Text |          that death which the true philosopher deserves, or how he deserves
 63 Text |          agree about it:—Ought the philosopher to care about the pleasures—
 64 Text |           should say that the true philosopher would despise them.~Would
 65 Text |         Certainly.~And in this the philosopher dishonours the body; his
 66 Text |            friend, if he be a true philosopher. For he will have a firm
 67 Text |    specially characteristic of the philosopher?~Certainly.~There is temperance
 68 Text |           And the soul of the true philosopher thinks that she ought not
 69 Text |       Certainly not! The soul of a philosopher will reason in quite another
 70 Text |           have not the temper of a philosopher; like the vulgar, I am only
 71 Text | imperishable and immortal, and the philosopher who is confident in death
 72 Text |            I proceeded, I found my philosopher altogether forsaking mind
 73 Text |       ideas. But you, if you are a philosopher, will certainly do as I


Phaedrus
    Part
 74 Intro|            the truth passes into a philosopher or lover; that which has
 75 Intro|           has chosen the life of a philosopher or of a lover who is not
 76 Intro|         world, but the mind of the philosopher has a better remembrance
 77 Intro|    universe.~The conception of the philosopher, or the philosopher and
 78 Intro|            the philosopher, or the philosopher and lover in one, as a sort
 79 Intro|   Theaetetus, in both of which the philosopher is regarded as a stranger
 80 Intro|         poet who is disguised as a philosopher. There is a twofold difficulty
 81 Intro|  antipathetic to him not only as a philosopher, but also as a great writer.
 82 Text |          by Stesichorus, who was a philosopher and knew the reason why;
 83 Text |       shall come to the birth as a philosopher, or artist, or some musical
 84 Text |           less; only the soul of a philosopher, guileless and true, or
 85 Text |         years. But the others (The philosopher alone is not subject to
 86 Text |          therefore the mind of the philosopher alone has wings; and this


Philebus
    Part
 87 Intro|           Republic he supposes the philosopher to proceed by regular steps,
 88 Intro|           conviction as any modern philosopher that nature does not proceed
 89 Intro|          to, knowledge. The modern philosopher would remark that the indefinite
 90 Intro|       pleasure, was not a physical philosopher; the atomists, who were
 91 Intro|         that the numbers which the philosopher employs are always the same,
 92 Intro|        fear of danger. Whereas the philosopher is seeking after wisdom
 93 Intro|       other pleasures, because the philosopher so estimates them; and he
 94 Intro|         all of them seemed to some philosopher or other the truest and
 95 Intro|           the spirit of an ancient philosopher he would have denied that
 96 Intro|           which is the thesis of a philosopher, not the watchword of an


The Republic
    Book
 97 1    |        avoid answering? ~You are a philosopher, Thrasymachus, I replied,
 98 2    |            have the qualities of a philosopher? ~I do not apprehend your
 99 2    |       charming; your dog is a true philosopher. ~Why? ~Why, because he
100 3    |              On the other hand the philosopher will have the quality of
101 5    |     Certainly. ~And one woman is a philosopher, and another is an enemy
102 5    |          And may we not say of the philosopher that he is a lover, not
103 5    |            we maintain not to be a philosopher or a lover of knowledge,
104 5    |             may be justly termed a philosopher? Am I not right? ~Glaucon
105 5    |         said: If curiosity makes a philosopher, you will find many a strange
106 6    |       observing, the nature of the philosopher has to be ascertained. We
107 6    |   pleasure-I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. ~That
108 6    |            we must insist that the philosopher should have a good memory? ~
109 6    |           which describes the true philosopher in his relation to the State;
110 6    |          of a lie be any part of a philosopher's nature? Will he not utterly
111 6    |      should again set in array the philosopher's virtues, as you will doubtless
112 6    |         and definition of the true philosopher. ~Exactly. ~And we have
113 6    |   qualities which we required in a philosopher is a rare plant which is
114 6    |            you are right. ~And our philosopher follows the same analogy-he
115 6    |         world cannot possibly be a philosopher? ~Impossible. ~And therefore
116 6    |           see any way in which the philosopher can be preserved in his
117 6    |      admitted by us to be the true philosopher's gifts. ~Yes. ~Will not
118 6    |        circumstanced ever become a philosopher? ~Impossible. ~Then were
119 6    |       qualities which make a man a philosopher, may, if he be ill-educated,
120 6    |      beyond our ken, the perfected philosopher is or has been or hereafter
121 6    |    converse? ~Impossible. ~And the philosopher holding converse with the
122 6    |           Will they doubt that the philosopher is a lover of truth and
123 6    |         perfect guardian must be a philosopher. ~Yes, he said, let that
124 7    |          array his troops, and the philosopher also, because he has to
125 7    |       guardian is both warrior and philosopher? ~Certainly. ~Then this
126 7    |         pursued in the spirit of a philosopher, and not of a shopkeeper! ~
127 8    |          more living the life of a philosopher; often he is busy with politics,
128 9    |          suppose, I said, that the philosopher sets any value on other
129 9    |     pleasure of knowledge than the philosopher has of the pleasure of gain? ~
130 9    |         the pleasure of gain? ~The philosopher, he replied, has greatly
131 9    |         true being is known to the philosopher only. ~His experience, then,
132 9    |     ambitious man, but only by the philosopher? ~What faculty? ~Reason,


The Seventh Letter
    Part
133 Text |          brave and temperate and a philosopher, the same belief with regard


The Sophist
    Part
134 Intro|        about the statesman and the philosopher, and by an allusion to his
135 Intro|         contrast of the lawyer and philosopher in the Theaetetus. The following
136 Intro|       Greek, again, ‘sophist’ and ‘philosopher’ became almost indistinguishable.
137 Intro|        between the Sophist and the Philosopher, and had often heard the
138 Intro|         the Sophist to be the true philosopher. One more feature of the
139 Intro|        from falsehood? The Eleatic philosopher would have replied that
140 Intro|            of philosophy. A modern philosopher, though emancipated from
141 Intro|           as we know, is the first philosopher who distinctly enunciated
142 Intro|        notion. As the Pre-Socratic philosopher failed to distinguish between
143 Intro|     Theodorus introduces as a true philosopher. Socrates, half in jest,
144 Intro|          are often deemed madmen. ‘Philosopher, statesman, sophist,’ says
145 Intro|              Give us both,’ so the philosopher must include both the moveable
146 Intro|          Sophist we have found the philosopher. He is the master who discerns
147 Intro|        obscurity of not-being, the philosopher is dark from excess of light.
148 Intro|        between the Sophist and the philosopher. Everything could be predicated
149 Intro|           the spirit of an ancient philosopher, Bishop Berkeley, feeling
150 Intro|          been handed down from one philosopher to another until they have
151 Intro|          he applies to every other philosopher.~Hegel would have insisted
152 Intro| possibility, in excluding from the philosopher’s vocabulary the word ‘inconceivable.’
153 Intro|        indifference to the poet or philosopher. We may need such a philosophy
154 Intro|       writings are arranged by the philosopher in different ways. What
155 Intro|    difficulty remembers. No former philosopher had ever carried the use
156 Intro|         Hegel, if not the greatest philosopher, is certainly the greatest
157 Text |    Parmenides and Zeno, and a true philosopher.~SOCRATES: Is he not rather
158 Text |      SOCRATES: Sophist, statesman, philosopher.~THEODORUS: What is your
159 Text |          might.~STRANGER: Then the philosopher, who has the truest reverence
160 Text |        have we not entertained the philosopher unawares?~THEAETETUS: What
161 Text |      attributed by you only to the philosopher pure and true?~THEAETETUS:
162 Text |          shall always discover the philosopher, if we look for him; like
163 Text |           be so.~STRANGER: And the philosopher, always holding converse
164 Text |         other.~STRANGER: Well, the philosopher may hereafter be more fully
165 Text |          call the other? Is he the philosopher or the Sophist?~THEAETETUS:
166 Text |           Sophist?~THEAETETUS: The philosopher he cannot be, for upon our


The Statesman
    Part
167 Intro|       delineated the Statesman and Philosopher, as well as the Sophist.~
168 Intro|    connexion between them. For the philosopher or dialectician is also
169 Intro|           variance with facts. The philosopher or theologian who could
170 Intro|            the imaginary rule of a philosopher or a God, the actual forms
171 Intro|  vermin-taker are all alike to the philosopher. There may have been a time
172 Intro|           return in the projected ‘Philosopher.’~The Statesman stands midway
173 Text |           the Statesman and of the Philosopher, as well as of the Sophist.~
174 Text |      SOCRATES: Sophist, statesman, philosopher! O my dear Theodorus, do
175 Text |          the Statesman or with the Philosopher, whichever he prefers.~STRANGER:


The Symposium
    Part
176 Intro|           in this he resembles the philosopher who is also in a mean between
177 Intro|          unlike that of the German philosopher, who says that ‘philosophy
178 Intro|            son of a king, may be a philosopher,’ so also there is a probability
179 Intro|         surprised to find that the philosopher is incited to take the first
180 Text |          anything rather than be a philosopher.~Well, he said, jesting
181 Text |            fertile in resources; a philosopher at all times, terrible as
182 Text |        matter is this: No god is a philosopher or seeker after wisdom,
183 Text |           therefore Love is also a philosopher or lover of wisdom, and


Theaetetus
    Part
184 Intro|         contrast of the lawyer and philosopher. This is a sort of landing-place
185 Intro|       happy are they who, like the philosopher, have time for such discussions (
186 Intro|          sufficient, viz. that the philosopher may talk and write as he
187 Intro|          rest of the dialogue. The philosopher naturally desires to pour
188 Intro|        statesman, speaker, and the philosopher,—between opinion and knowledge,—
189 Intro|     importance; for though he is a philosopher, he is not a painter, and
190 Intro|          That is because you are a philosopher, for philosophy begins in
191 Intro|           be indeed truth, and the philosopher is not merely amusing himself
192 Intro|        mean?’ I mean to say that a philosopher is a gentleman, but a lawyer
193 Intro|           to all philosophers. The philosopher is unacquainted with the
194 Intro|         double that again, and our philosopher only laughs at his inability
195 Intro|           pictures: the one of the philosopher and gentleman, who may be
196 Intro|          or others may be deemed a philosopher. In the mode of effecting
197 Intro|            contempt with which the philosopher takes down the pride of
198 Intro|     propositions to Aristotle. The philosopher of Konigsberg supposed himself
199 Intro|         communicated to him by the philosopher, that mind is all—when in
200 Intro|           Epicurean or Utilitarian philosopher only names which interfere
201 Text |           what Theodorus says? The philosopher, whom you would not like
202 Text |            he said that you were a philosopher, for wonder is the feeling
203 Text |         wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in
204 Text |            the real truth, and the philosopher is not merely amusing himself
205 Text |          older, instead of turning philosopher, he will come to hate philosophy.
206 Text |           companion picture of the philosopher, who is of our brotherhood;
207 Text |           are matters of which the philosopher no more knows than he can
208 Text |          all philosophers. For the philosopher is wholly unacquainted with
209 Text |       thousand acres and more, our philosopher deems this to be a trifle,
210 Text |             in all these cases our philosopher is derided by the vulgar,
211 Text |       about all this, he gives the philosopher his revenge; for dizzied
212 Text |         leisure, whom you call the philosopher,—him we cannot blame because


Timaeus
    Part
213 Intro|            of the ancient physical philosopher. He has no notion of trying
214 Intro|          atmosphere of the ancient philosopher, or understand how, under
215 Intro|        between the opinions of one philosopher and another—between Aristotle
216 Intro|         well aware that an ancient philosopher is to be interpreted from
217 Intro|         the mouth of a Pythagorean philosopher, and not of Socrates. And
218 Intro|           fashioned by any poet or philosopher to describe physical phenomena.
219 Intro|          Locris, who are at once a philosopher and a statesman, and to
220 Intro|         other was she herself, the philosopher and warrior goddess, so
221 Intro|          Timaeus, who is a natural philosopher, will speak of the origin
222 Intro|        phenomena some physician or philosopher who was able to see the
223 Intro|           end the mathematician or philosopher must practise gymnastics,
224 Intro|           she presented to a Greek philosopher of the fourth century before
225 Intro|         appeared to the Greek. The philosopher himself was a child and
226 Intro|   observation of nature. The Greek philosopher looked at the blue circle
227 Intro|            which to the eye of the philosopher looking inward, seemed to
228 Intro|             which pass through the philosopher’s mind, of resemblances
229 Intro|       analogy the ancient physical philosopher would have stood still;
230 Intro|          sometimes led the ancient philosopher to make corresponding differences
231 Intro|           of knowledge. The modern philosopher has always been taught the
232 Intro|        were possessed by the Greek philosopher; having the same power over
233 Intro|     mechanics, in which the modern philosopher expects to find them, and
234 Intro|            mind of the early Greek philosopher. He would have beheld the
235 Intro|          had led the great Eleatic philosopher to describe the nature of
236 Intro|       science. The modern physical philosopher is apt to dwell exclusively
237 Intro|         knowledge. But the ancient philosopher never experimented: in the
238 Intro|          of Timaeus, a Pythagorean philosopher, and therefore here, as
239 Intro|         impulse (Greek) of the one philosopher answers to the circular
240 Intro|          of Plato as a Pythagorean philosopher residing at Thebes in the
241 Intro|          Plato, though an idealist philosopher, is Greek and not Oriental
242 Intro|        said to be Crantor, a Stoic philosopher who lived a generation later
243 Text |            perhaps, or rather some philosopher, who had the power of seeing