Charmides
    Part
  1 PreF |      enabled to attain is in great measure due to these gentlemen,
  2 PreS |     principle which gives form and measure to the (Greek); and in the ‘
  3 PreS |           with them, such as mind, measure, limit, eternity, essence (
  4 Intro|            would supply a rule and measure of all things, still there
  5 Text |           my friend, that I cannot measure anything, and of the beautiful,
  6 Text |      beautiful, I am simply such a measure as a white line is of chalk;


Cratylus
    Part
  7 Intro|          of which we cannot easily measure the importance. There is
  8 Intro|         indigesta moles’ order and measure. It was Anaxagoras’ omou
  9 Intro|            up wholly or in a great measure independently of them. (
 10 Text |            he says that man is the measure of all things, and that
 11 Text |       about them, according to the measure of our ability, saying by


Critias
    Part
 12 Intro|        follows, begs that a larger measure of indulgence may be conceded


Euthyphro
    Part
 13 Intro|        verifying them. There is no measure or standard to which they
 14 Text |           look, and by which I may measure actions, whether yours or


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 15 Text |         cubit? Does not the art of measure?~ALCIBIADES: Yes.~SOCRATES:


Gorgias
    Part
 16 Intro|    dialogues. In both the ideas of measure, order, harmony, are the
 17 Intro|            And often, forgetful of measure and order, he will express
 18 Text |         one exceeds in beauty, the measure of the excess is to be taken
 19 Text |           perfectly, or in a great measure and for a certain time.


Laches
    Part
 20 Text |      service, and have taken their measure, which I can give you at
 21 Text |       theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and


Laws
    Book
 22 1    |          carpenter should learn to measure or apply the line in play;
 23 3    |           forms of government in a measure; the argument emphatically
 24 4    |        like agrees with like, with measure measure,” but things which
 25 4    |            with like, with measure measure,” but things which have
 26 4    |           but things which have no measure agree neither with themselves
 27 4    |          God ought to be to us the measure of all things, and not man,
 28 5    |            person, but also to the measure of his wealth or poverty;
 29 5    |          the legislator gives as a measure, and he will permit a man
 30 5    |          which is in excess of the measure, if he give back the surplus
 31 5    |     possesses should have a common measure, when we consider generally
 32 6    |         they are not harmonized by measure; and both by reason of equality,
 33 6    |       honours: this is the rule of measure, weight, and number, which
 34 6    |     proportion to their respective measure of virtue and education.
 35 8    |       supply, let him have a fixed measure, which shall be determined
 36 8    |     remains he shall distribute by measure and numb among the animals
 37 9    |        them, requires some extreme measure of prevention. Now death
 38 11   |       goods to equality and common measure? And this is what the power
 39 11   |            should aim at the right measure of punishment, and in all
 40 12   |          name in each year to be a measure of time as long as the city


Meno
    Part
 41 Intro|           many forms, and has in a measure influenced those who seemed


Parmenides
    Part
 42 Intro|       equality implies sameness of measure, as inequality implies a
 43 Intro|            cannot have sameness of measure; nor a greater or less number
 44 Text |       Right.~And if it were of one measure, it would be equal to that
 45 Text |          it would be equal to that measure; yet it has been shown to
 46 Text |        will neither partake of one measure, nor of many, nor of few,


Phaedo
    Part
 47 Intro|         compared, and which is the measure of them. And the measure
 48 Intro|           measure of them. And the measure or standard must be prior
 49 Intro|            is not to be taken as a measure of the diffusion of such
 50 Text |         this perfect equality in a measure?~Yes, he said, in a very
 51 Text |           he said, in a very great measure too.~And must we not allow,
 52 Text |           and the less less by the measure of the head, which is the


Phaedrus
    Part
 53 Intro|      cannot be reduced to rule and measure. Perhaps, too, he is ironically
 54 Intro|            is reduced to order and measure. We must not attribute a
 55 Text |          benefits according to the measure of their ability, in the
 56 Text |           always, according to the measure of his abilities, clinging


Philebus
    Part
 57 Intro|           between the two heads of measure and symmetry; and though
 58 Intro|  carpentering, which have an exact measure, are to be regarded as higher
 59 Intro|        good. First in the scale is measure; the second place is assigned
 60 Intro|            This is the negative of measure or limit; the unthinkable,
 61 Intro|      exhibited under the aspect of measure or symmetry, becomes beauty.
 62 Intro|           the supreme principle of measure.~b. Again, to us there is
 63 Intro|            a higher law; the final measure which is the highest expression
 64 Intro|   therefore be reduced to rule and measure. And if we adopt the test
 65 Intro|        weight is given to ideas of measure and number, as the sole
 66 Intro|     elements, which have no common measure, and which cannot be excluded
 67 Intro|          is determined by rule and measure. Of the more empirical arts,
 68 Intro|        capable of being reduced to measure.~The theoretical element
 69 Intro|           scale of goods he places measure, in which he finds the eternal
 70 Intro|         one another. For the word ‘measure’ he now substitutes the
 71 Intro|            if intending to express measure conceived as relation. He
 72 Intro|           if limited or reduced to measure by number and quantity.
 73 Intro|       unmixed pleasures we ascribe measure, whereas all others belong
 74 Intro|           an element of number and measure in them. In music, for example,
 75 Intro|            application of rule and measure. Of the creative arts, then,
 76 Intro|           false rule and the false measure? That we must, if we are
 77 Intro|          in the scale of good, but measure, and eternal harmony.~Second
 78 Intro|         various circumstances, the measure of a man’s happiness may
 79 Intro|        great subtlety. The mean or measure is now made the first principle
 80 Text |            saying, if quantity and measure did not disappear, but were
 81 Text |          other ratio of number and measure—all these may, I think,
 82 Text |        true being, effected by the measure which the limit introduces.~
 83 Text |        which are in excess have no measure, but that those which are
 84 Text |       which are not in excess have measure; the great, the excessive,
 85 Text |       refer to the class which has measure.~PROTARCHUS: Quite right,
 86 Text |      sounds are harmonized, not by measure, but by skilful conjecture;
 87 Text |           art which uses the false measure and the false circle?~PROTARCHUS:
 88 Text |          He knows that any want of measure and symmetry in any mixture
 89 Text |       region of the beautiful; for measure and symmetry are beauty
 90 Text |     speaking of beauty, truth, and measure?~SOCRATES: Yes, Protarchus,
 91 Text |             Shall we next consider measure, in like manner, and ask
 92 Text |            more in conformity with measure than mind and knowledge.~
 93 Text |            the second, but that in measure, and the mean, and the suitable,


Protagoras
    Part
 94 Text |         unworthy to overcome. What measure is there of the relations
 95 Text |        pain? There can be no other measure of them. And do you, like
 96 Text |            And this, as possessing measure, must undeniably also be


The Republic
    Book
 97 4    |            them. When a man cannot measure, and a great many others
 98 4    |       great many others who cannot measure declare that he is four
 99 5    |     consider the advantages of the measure; and hereafter the question
100 5    |         the brave according to the measure of their valor, whether
101 6    |            that you gave us a fair measure of truth. ~But, my friend,
102 6    |          But, my friend, I said, a measure of such things which in
103 6    |            whole truth is not fair measure; for nothing imperfect is
104 6    |           nothing imperfect is the measure of anything, although persons
105 9    |    Inevitably. ~Would you know the measure of the interval which separates
106 9    |            his satellites, and the measure of his inferiority can only
107 10   |         way before calculation and measure and weight? ~Most true. ~
108 10   |         has an opinion contrary to measure is not the same with that
109 10   |         opinion in accordance with measure? ~True. ~And the better
110 10   |            be that which trusts to measure and calculation? ~Certainly. ~


The Seventh Letter
    Part
111 Text |            might~To fell Charybdis measure back my course,~but must


The Sophist
    Part
112 Intro|          may attribute to him in a measure the credit of anticipating
113 Intro|            attainment of a mark or measure. The latter arises from
114 Intro|        ideas of quality, quantity, measure, number, and the like, (
115 Intro|       uttered the word ‘Man is the measure of all things,’ which Socrates
116 Intro|       reason why the conception of measure in the first part, which
117 Intro|        terms of quality, quantity, measure; secondly, under the relative
118 Text |           anything but the want of measure, which is always unsightly?~


The Statesman
    Part
119 Intro|         limits; and is there not a measure of all arts and sciences,
120 Intro|           before we can apply this measure, we must know what is the
121 Intro|        geometrician apply the same measure to all three? Are they not
122 Intro|       difference between a mean or measure and excess or defect. All
123 Intro|          the arts. The standard or measure, which we are now only applying
124 Intro|            part all the arts which measure the relative size or number
125 Intro|           length he obtains such a measure of education and help as
126 Intro|      unless he is furnished with a measure or standard? Measure is
127 Intro|        with a measure or standard? Measure is the life of the arts,
128 Intro|            alone he finds the true measure of human things; and very
129 Intro|         out in detail. The idea of measure and the arrangement of the
130 Text |      species?~STRANGER: There is a measure of difference which may
131 Text |          due to this observance of measure.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.~
132 Text |             there is a standard of measure, and if there is a standard
133 Text |          if there is a standard of measure, there are arts; but if
134 Text |            part all the arts which measure number, length, depth, breadth,
135 Text |           in some sense partake of measure. But these persons, because


The Symposium
    Part
136 Intro|          yet also having a certain measure of seriousness,’ which the
137 Intro|          is not to be taken as the measure of the prevalence of offences,
138 Text |       wisdom; and according to the measure of my ability I must try
139 Text | half-playful, yet having a certain measure of seriousness, which, according
140 Text |            see not to be after the measure of gold, and garments, and
141 Text |           of love according to the measure of my ability now and ever.~


Theaetetus
    Part
142 Intro|    Protagorean saying, ‘Man is the measure of all things;’ and of this
143 Intro|           Protagoras are as good a measure as he is, and they deny
144 Intro|            own thesis, ‘Man is the measure of all things,’ with the
145 Intro|         this dialogue, ‘Man is the measure of all things,’ and, ‘Whether
146 Intro|          doctrine that ‘Man is the measure of all things,’ is expressly
147 Intro|          arrived. For there was no measure of experience with which
148 Intro|          when he says, “Man is the measure of all things.” He was a
149 Intro|            saying that “Man is the measure of all things,” the doctrine
150 Intro|          which has sensation, is a measure of all things; then, while
151 Intro|           him, if every man is the measure of all things? My own art
152 Intro|       still affirm that man is the measure of all things, although
153 Intro|         not, must continue to be a measure. This is my defence, and
154 Intro|            thesis that ‘Man is the measure of all things;’ and then
155 Intro|           every man is equally the measure of expediency, or that the
156 Intro|           maintain that man is the measure not only of the present
157 Intro|    compelled to admit that he is a measure; but I, who know nothing,
158 Intro|         them by no means affords a measure of the relative degree of
159 Intro|            thesis that ‘Man is the measure of all things.’ The interpretation
160 Intro|          relater of facts, a truer measure of the proportions of knowledge.
161 Intro|           others, according to the measure of his capacity and education.
162 Intro|          in the lower sense was a ‘measure of all things.’ Like other
163 Intro|           change, secondly, law or measure pervading the change: these
164 Intro|   Protagoras said that ‘Man is the measure of all things,’ and that ‘
165 Intro|   experience. Through quantity and measure we are conducted to our
166 Intro|            degree; nor have we any measure of the strength and intensity
167 Text |           it. Man, he says, is the measure of all things, of the existence
168 Text |        Protagoras, that man is the measure of all things; or with Theaetetus,
169 Text |        which has sensation, is the measure of all things; then he might
170 Text |            him, if each one is the measure of his own wisdom? Must
171 Text |           for you would assume the measure of Protagoras to apply to
172 Text |           and that each of us is a measure of existence and of non-existence.
173 Text |           not, must endure to be a measure. On these foundations the
174 Text |           as the text, ‘Man is the measure of all things,’ was a solemn
175 Text |        know whether you are a true measure of diagrams, or whether
176 Text |       which declares man to be the measure of all things.~THEODORUS:
177 Text |         not think, that man is the measure of all things, must it not
178 Text |            any ordinary man is the measure of anything which he has
179 Text |            is, as you declare, the measure of all things—white, heavy,
180 Text |            and that the wiser is a measure: but I, who know nothing,
181 Text |           would or not, of being a measure of anything.~THEODORUS:
182 Text |    doctrine, that every man is the measure of all things—a wise man
183 Text |        things—a wise man only is a measure; neither can we allow that


Timaeus
    Part
184 Intro|            were without reason and measure, and had only certain faint
185 Intro|           developed. They were the measure of all things, and seemed
186 Intro|             at last they conceive ‘measure’ or laws of nature. They
187 Intro|          as fate, or necessity, or measure, or limit. Unexpected events,
188 Intro|           this Plato expresses the measure of the difference between
189 Intro|          an affinity to number and measure and a presentiment of ideas.
190 Text |        there might be some visible measure of their relative swiftness
191 Text |          name for them, and do not measure them against one another
192 Text |        were all without reason and measure. But when the world began
193 Text |          and make them to attain a measure of truth, placed in the