Charmides
    Part
  1 PreS |             Eighth, and is quite as impossible and inconsistent as the
  2 PreS |             Nepos. It does not seem impossible that so attractive a theme
  3 PreS |        hitherto scholars have found impossible to reconcile with the statements
  4 Text |         that, Socrates, he said, is impossible; and therefore if this is,
  5 Text |            he knows building?~It is impossible.~Then he who is ignorant


Cratylus
    Part
  6 Intro|           interpretations of words, impossible unions and separations of
  7 Intro|           are often such that it is impossible to make out the original
  8 Intro|           to mean that falsehood is impossible, to which his own answer
  9 Intro|     question, ‘whether falsehood is impossible,’ which Socrates characteristically
 10 Intro|         letters, but in which it is impossible to assign a precise amount
 11 Intro|           would make such a decline impossible. Nor will modern languages
 12 Intro|            use of printing makes it impossible that one of them should
 13 Text |             us foolish?~HERMOGENES: Impossible.~SOCRATES: And if, on the
 14 Text |       maintaining that falsehood is impossible? For if this is your meaning
 15 Text |      picture is composed?~CRATYLUS: Impossible.~SOCRATES: No more could


Euthydemus
    Part
 16 Intro|             and thus make knowledge impossible, to whom ideas and objects
 17 Text |     Certainly, he said.~And that is impossible?~Impossible, he replied.~
 18 Text |             And that is impossible?~Impossible, he replied.~Are you saying
 19 Text |              to tell a falsehood is impossible?~Very true, said Euthydemus.~
 20 Text |          not know all things?~Quite impossible.~And now, he said, you may
 21 Text |         speaker? said Dionysodorus.~Impossible, said Ctesippus.~Or a speaking
 22 Text |          silent?~That is still more impossible, he said.~But when you speak


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 23 Pre  |                    Preface~It seems impossible to separate by any exact
 24 Text |           in ignorance?~ALCIBIADES: Impossible.~SOCRATES: And when individuals
 25 Text |            know a shoe?~ALCIBIADES: Impossible.~SOCRATES: Nor should we
 26 Text |          are ourselves?~ALCIBIADES: Impossible.~SOCRATES: And is self-knowledge
 27 Text |       ALCIBIADES: It would be quite impossible.~SOCRATES: Nor should we
 28 Text |             he has not?~ALCIBIADES: Impossible.~SOCRATES: Then you or any


Gorgias
    Part
 29 Intro|           them. To the many this is impossible, and therefore they combine
 30 Intro|            well and ill together is impossible. But pleasure and pain are
 31 Intro|          with which it is sometimes impossible for man to cope. That men
 32 Text |        SOCRATES: Say rather, Polus, impossible; for who can refute the


Laws
    Book
 33 1    |          drunk with fear?~Megillus. Impossible.~Athenian. And what if besides
 34 1    |          much as I can of an almost impossible task, which I will nevertheless
 35 2    |            evil and base?~Cleinias. Impossible.~Athenian. The view which
 36 2    |            been imitated?~Cleinias. Impossible.~Athenian. But even if we
 37 2    |           thing is right?~Cleinias. Impossible.~Athenian. Then now, as
 38 3    |          made up of both.~Cleinias. Impossible.~Athenian. Neither the one,
 39 3    |          from temperance?~Megillus. Impossible.~Athenian. Any more than
 40 3    |         they had gained a seemingly impossible victory, and borne up by
 41 5    |      possible, and some of them are impossible; and he who orders the state
 42 5    |            accomplish that which is impossible. The citizen must indeed
 43 5    |         finds any part of this work impossible of execution he should avoid
 44 6    |           of magistrates?~Cleinias. Impossible.~Athenian. The matter is
 45 6    |             or performing any other impossible and useless feat.~Cleinias.
 46 8    |           we are making foolish and impossible laws, and fills the world
 47 8    |         common meals is also deemed impossible. And although this latter
 48 8    |           regarded as unnatural and impossible. I was thinking of the rebelliousness
 49 9    |           the basis of legislation? Impossible. Before proceeding to legislate,
 50 9    |        unpleasant to legislate, but impossible not to legislate. If, for
 51 9    |     determine any of them, is alike impossible. There is one particular
 52 9    |          small or great, is next to impossible.~Cleinias. Then what is
 53 10   |            the beginning of change? Impossible. But when the self–moved
 54 10   |              For surely, when it is impossible for him to take care of
 55 10   |      pleasures and pains?~Cleinias. Impossible.~Athenian. Do not all human
 56 11   |            this, which to him is an impossible consideration. Let the law
 57 12   |            a woman. This however is impossible, and therefore let us make
 58 12   |             know the aim?~Cleinias. Impossible.~Athenian. And therefore,
 59 12   |            equal, my; good, sir, is impossible.~Athenian. Then we ought


Lysis
    Part
 60 Text |       conceit of knowledge?~That is impossible, he replied.~And you, Lysis,
 61 Text |           my dear friend, or indeed impossible is this paradox of a man
 62 Text |             the friend of the good.~Impossible.~Further, I must observe


Menexenus
    Part
 63 Pre  |                    PREFACE~It seems impossible to separate by any exact


Meno
    Part
 64 Text |             follows, and if this is impossible then some other; and therefore


Parmenides
    Part
 65 Intro|            smallness or equality?’ ‘Impossible.’ ‘But how can individuals
 66 Intro|       learner will find them nearly impossible to understand, and the teacher
 67 Intro|       propositions might be equally impossible and contradictory.~When
 68 Intro|            been already shown to be impossible; and yet more impossible
 69 Intro|            impossible; and yet more impossible is coming into being in
 70 Intro|           how can this be? And more impossible still is the coming into
 71 Intro|           or of greatness, which is impossible. Again, if the inherence
 72 Intro|            like one; both which are impossible, if one does not exist.
 73 Intro|             the severer and perhaps impossible method of hypothetical consequences,
 74 Intro|        Cynics were making knowledge impossible, he takes their ‘catch-words’
 75 Text |            unlike, and that this is impossible, for neither can the like
 76 Text |        virtue of that portion only?~Impossible.~Or suppose one of us to
 77 Text |            are thoughts of nothing?~Impossible, he said.~The thought must
 78 Text |        other than the like of like.~Impossible.~And when two things are
 79 Text |             the one cannot be many?~Impossible.~Then the one cannot have
 80 Text |          which does not contain it.~Impossible.~But then, that which contains
 81 Text |        carried round upon a centre?~Impossible.~But perhaps the motion
 82 Text |           in anything is still more impossible; is it not?~I do not see
 83 Text |             not one.~Surely that is impossible.~And therefore the one can
 84 Text |           nor the same with itself.~Impossible.~And thus the one can neither
 85 Text |             more than one; which is impossible.~True.~Then the one can
 86 Text |             anything else the same?~Impossible.~And not having the same
 87 Text |           and not partake of being?~Impossible.~Then the one will have
 88 Text |         being, or being to the one?~Impossible.~Thus, each of the parts
 89 Text |             being, and yet no part?~Impossible.~But if it is at all and
 90 Text |            be in the less, which is impossible.~Yes, impossible.~But if
 91 Text |           which is impossible.~Yes, impossible.~But if the whole is neither
 92 Text |          and not its own functions?~Impossible.~Then smallness cannot be
 93 Text |           exceed; this, however, is impossible, seeing that smallness is
 94 Text |          its own nature, or is that impossible?~Impossible.~And yet, surely,
 95 Text |              or is that impossible?~Impossible.~And yet, surely, the one
 96 Text |          merely become. But that is impossible; for they are always becoming
 97 Text |            when partaking of being?~Impossible.~Then the one partakes and
 98 Text |           gives it up at some time?~Impossible.~And the assuming of being
 99 Text |             experiencing change, is impossible.~Impossible.~And surely
100 Text | experiencing change, is impossible.~Impossible.~And surely there cannot
101 Text |            part of itself, which is impossible, and it will be a part of
102 Text |             is truly one has parts?~Impossible.~Then the one will not be
103 Text |           others, and has no parts?~Impossible.~Then there is no way in
104 Text |         things was held by us to be impossible?~Impossible.~Then the others
105 Text |             by us to be impossible?~Impossible.~Then the others are neither
106 Text |           this has been shown to be impossible.~True.~Therefore they are
107 Text |             state without changing?~Impossible.~Then everything which is
108 Text |          from one place to another?~Impossible.~Then it cannot move by
109 Text |         still be capable of motion?~Impossible.~Now that which is unmoved
110 Text |        either assume or lose being?~Impossible.~The one then, since it
111 Text |             others will not be one?~Impossible.~Nor will they be many;


Phaedo
    Part
112 Text |        recollect. But this would be impossible unless our soul had been
113 Text |          the same as of inequality?~Impossible, Socrates.~Then these (so-called)
114 Text |          depart pure and unalloyed?~Impossible, he replied.~She is held
115 Text |        feeling), how hard or rather impossible is the attainment of any
116 Text |          about them; or, if this be impossible, I would have him take the
117 Text |            its parts.~That would be impossible, he replied.~And does not
118 Text |        opposite of what she brings.~Impossible, replied Cebes.~And now,


Phaedrus
    Part
119 Intro|             be not only tedious but impossible, we at once pass on to describe


Philebus
    Part
120 Intro|          opinions is far from being impossible. Plato’s omission to mention
121 Intro|        state of our knowledge it is impossible to bridge over. It follows
122 Text |             chief good.~PROTARCHUS: Impossible.~SOCRATES: And will you
123 Text |             experience?~PROTARCHUS: Impossible.~SOCRATES: And yet he who
124 Text |         gold or silver?~PROTARCHUS: Impossible.~SOCRATES: No more can that
125 Text |         become certain?~PROTARCHUS: Impossible.~SOCRATES: How can anything
126 Text |         either of them?~PROTARCHUS: Impossible.~SOCRATES: Then now we must
127 Text |             or subsist.~PROTARCHUS: Impossible.~SOCRATES: Quite impossible;
128 Text |         Impossible.~SOCRATES: Quite impossible; and now you and Philebus


Protagoras
    Part
129 Intro|          this poem before us, it is impossible for us to answer certainly
130 Text |      purpose in searching after the impossible, hoping in vain to find
131 Text |             previous argument to be impossible.~That, again, I replied,
132 Text |            this appears to me to be impossible consistently with the argument.~


The Republic
    Book
133 1    |            make them bad horsemen? ~Impossible. ~And can the just by justice
134 1    |          can the good harm anyone? ~Impossible. ~And the just is the good? ~
135 2    |            be imported is well-nigh impossible. ~Impossible. ~Then there
136 2    |           is well-nigh impossible. ~Impossible. ~Then there must be another
137 2    |   combination of them appears to be impossible; and hence we must infer
138 2    |            to be a good guardian is impossible. ~I am afraid that what
139 2    |               Then there is nothing impossible or out of the order of nature
140 2    |           evil be a cause of evil? ~Impossible. ~And the good is advantageous? ~
141 2    |             to make himself worse? ~Impossible. ~Then it is impossible
142 2    |             Impossible. ~Then it is impossible that God should ever be
143 3    |           to be real and terrible? ~Impossible. ~Then we must assume a
144 4    |         them likely to be lasting. ~Impossible. ~It would seem, Adeimantus,
145 4    |             time in the same part? ~Impossible. ~Still, I said, let us
146 4    |      contrary ways about the same. ~Impossible. ~No more than you can say
147 4    |          been oaths or agreements. ~Impossible. ~No one will be less likely
148 5    |             opinion about nothing? ~Impossible. ~He who has an opinion
149 6    |           or hard in his dealings? ~Impossible. ~Then you will soon observe
150 6    |           the band which he leads? ~Impossible. ~Justice and health of
151 6    |         possibly be a philosopher? ~Impossible. ~And therefore philosophers
152 6    |         ever become a philosopher? ~Impossible. ~Then were we not right
153 6    |           of these alternatives are impossible, I see no reason to affirm:
154 6    |        holds reverential converse? ~Impossible. ~And the philosopher holding
155 6    |            though difficult, is not impossible. ~Very good. ~And so with
156 7    |             in the heavenly light? ~Impossible, he answered; for they are
157 7    |           can ever become science? ~Impossible, he said. ~Then dialectic,
158 7    |           and obey them as before? ~Impossible. ~And when he ceases to
159 7    |             although difficult, not impossible, but only possible in the
160 9    |           of passions and desires? ~Impossible. ~Reflecting upon these
161 9    |       absence of pleasure is pain? ~Impossible. This, then, is an appearance
162 9    |          within him; or, if this be impossible, then by an external authority,
163 10   |          themselves: how could he? ~Impossible. ~And there is another artist-I


The Seventh Letter
    Part
164 Text |    proceeded to render my departure impossible, bringing me into the acropolis,
165 Text |          the thing is difficult and impossible for them, and are actually
166 Text |          tell Dionysios that it was impossible for me to remain after this


The Sophist
    Part
167 Intro|         truth and falsehood equally impossible. It has been said that Plato
168 Intro|              2. they make reasoning impossible by their over-accuracy in
169 Intro|            with any one who knows? ‘Impossible.’ Then what is the trick
170 Intro|        elementary ideas thought was impossible. There was no distinction
171 Intro|            them as making knowledge impossible. He does not assert that
172 Text |            for that was shown to be impossible.~THEAETETUS: Impossible,
173 Text |             impossible.~THEAETETUS: Impossible, of course.~STRANGER: Then
174 Text |           manner he has got into an impossible place.~THEAETETUS: Yes,
175 Text |          isolated from all being is impossible.~THEAETETUS: Impossible.~
176 Text |             impossible.~THEAETETUS: Impossible.~STRANGER: You mean by assenting
177 Text |           which is not?~THEAETETUS: Impossible.~STRANGER: And all number
178 Text |       possible?~THEAETETUS: Utterly impossible.~STRANGER: Here, then, is
179 Text |       STRANGER: But this is utterly impossible.~THEAETETUS: Of course.~
180 Text |  suppositions have been found to be impossible.~THEAETETUS: Yes.~STRANGER:
181 Text |             which has no subject is impossible.~THEAETETUS: Quite true.~


The Statesman
    Part
182 Intro|          which are making reasoning impossible; and is driven by them out
183 Intro|  oppositions, the requirement of an impossible accuracy in the use of terms,
184 Intro|            make action and movement impossible.~The statesman who builds
185 Text |            happier?~YOUNG SOCRATES: Impossible.~STRANGER: Then shall I
186 Text |    existence of production would be impossible.~YOUNG SOCRATES: What do
187 Text |           the royal science will be impossible.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Very true.~
188 Text |            science?~YOUNG SOCRATES: Impossible.~STRANGER: But, perhaps,
189 Text |          other mob.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Impossible.~STRANGER: Then the nearest
190 Text |          materials?~YOUNG SOCRATES: Impossible.~STRANGER: But in those


The Symposium
    Part
191 Text |           he replied, I thought so.~Impossible: I said. Are you ignorant
192 Text |           is either good or fair?’ ‘Impossible.’ ‘Then you see that you


Theaetetus
    Part
193 Intro|       definition of knowledge to be impossible. But this is his manner
194 Intro|             with the severity of an impossible logic, if half-truths have
195 Intro|        logic, were making knowledge impossible (compare Theaet.). They
196 Intro|             know at the same time? ‘Impossible.’ Quite possible, if you
197 Intro|           knows (this is still more impossible); or when he does not know
198 Intro|             which language would be impossible. And has Plato kept altogether
199 Intro|         original latent seed, it is impossible to distinguish. And because
200 Intro|          knowledge of it. It is not impossible that some numerical laws
201 Text |           fail to know?~THEAETETUS: Impossible, Socrates; the supposition
202 Text |        attaining being?~THEAETETUS: Impossible.~SOCRATES: And can he who
203 Text |      THEAETETUS: That, Socrates, is impossible.~SOCRATES: But perhaps he
204 Text |            see nothing?~THEAETETUS: Impossible.~SOCRATES: But if he sees
205 Text |             by making a list of the impossible cases which must be excluded. (
206 Text |         false opinion is held to be impossible; did no man ever ask himself
207 Text |           but this, as we said, was impossible, and afforded an irresistible


Timaeus
    Part
208 Intro|    substances; such experiments are impossible to man.~These are the elements
209 Intro|             him to all men would be impossible.’ ‘Let me tell you then
210 Text |             him to all men would be impossible. And there is still a question
211 Text |         fulness upon a creature was impossible. Wherefore he resolved to
212 Text |             mover is hard or indeed impossible, and equally impossible
213 Text |             impossible, and equally impossible to conceive that there can
214 Text |          for these to be uniform is impossible; wherefore we must assign