24261 | Devotion to learning and applied intelligence leads to divine wisdom - if truth is available [Plato] |
24264 | Cebes responds critically to every idea he hears [Plato] |
24276 | If you want to discover facts, don't muddle the start of enquiry with its conclusion [Plato] |
24280 | Changing things and change itself are part of being, since it has life and mind [Plato] |
24281 | We divide things into kinds by expert dialectic [Plato] |
24270 | If we perceive equals, we need prior knowledge of the equal in itself [Plato] |
24285 | Beauty itself is eternal, and beautiful objects partake of it, but never change it [Plato] |
24282 | A form is wholly present in many different things (just as a day is present in many places) [Plato] |
24283 | It is most likely that forms are patterns, and a thing partakes by being modelled on the form [Plato] |
24275 | Whether things are large or small needs the Forms of largeness and smallness [Plato] |
24284 | We want the character which makes all bees the same, or all virtues somehow the same [Plato] |
24272 | Philosophy reveals that the senses are extremely deceptive [Plato] |
24271 | If a man knows something, he can give an account of it [Plato] |
24279 | We no longer explain a hot body by 'heat', but by its containing fire [Plato] |
24269 | When lovers see a beloved's lyre, they immediately think of the beloved [Plato] |
24278 | Threeness brings up oddness, which won't admit evenness [Plato] |
24286 | Perceiving true beauty leads to truth, and hence to goodness [Plato] |
24266 | Normal temperance - scorn and control of desires - needs contempt of the body, and wisdom [Plato] |
24267 | Well-ordering is not temperance; it is just fear of pleasure becoming excessive [Plato] |
24262 | Sometimes, and for some people, death is better than life [Plato] |
24263 | We belong to the gods, and only kill ourselves if they indicate some necessity [Plato] |
24277 | Snow ceases to be snow if it admits the hot; it is the same if fire admits the cold [Plato] |
24273 | Simmias fears that the beautiful soul is attunement of the body, and dies with it [Plato] |
24268 | It is a common fear that the soul may entirely disperse immediately after death [Plato] |
24274 | Critias thinks soul survives death into another body, but that process may still terminate [Plato] |
24265 | After death I expect to join the wise gods, and good men [Plato] |