Plato quotes on meaning of

SOCRATES: Well, then, consider and try to explain what is the meaning of 'better,' in the matter of making peace and going to war with those against whom you ought to go to war? To what does the word refer? ALCIBIADES: I am thinking, and I cannot tell

And I said to myself, Go I must to all who appear to know, and find out the meaning of the oracle
Source: Plato, Alcibiades II

Then I am quite certain that he put forth his definition as a riddle, thinking that no one would know the meaning of the words 'doing his own business.' I dare say, he replied
Source: Plato, Charmides

Which is the fact; for this is the meaning of his father's name: Kronos quasi Koros (Choreo, to sweep), not in the sense of a youth, but signifying to chatharon chai acheraton tou nou, the pure and garnished mind (sc
Source: Plato, Cratylus

I will tell you the reason of this: Solon, who was intending to use the tale for his poem, enquired into the meaning of the names, and found that the early Egyptians in writing them down had translated them into their own language, and he recovered the meaning of the several names and when copying them out again translated them into our language
Source: Plato, Critias

He asked what was the meaning of this, and I replied: Surely wisdom is good-fortune; even a child may know that
Source: Plato, Euthydemus

SOCRATES: That is good, Euthyphro; yet still there is a little point about which I should like to have further information, What is the meaning of 'attention'? For attention can hardly be used in the same sense when applied to the gods as when applied to other things
Source: Plato, Euthyphro

SOCRATES: And that, Gorgias, was what I was suspecting to be your notion; yet I would not have you wonder if by-and-by I am found repeating a seemingly plain question; for I ask not in order to confute you, but as I was saying that the argument may proceed consecutively, and that we may not get the habit of anticipating and suspecting the meaning of one another's words; I would have you develope your

So by comparing things old and new we may sometimes help to realize to ourselves the meaning of Plato in the altered circumstances of our own life
Source: Plato, Laws

SOCRATES: I should greatly like, Eudicus, to ask Hippias the meaning of what he was saying just now about Homer
Source: Plato, Lesser Hippias

But the real meaning of the saying, as I imagine, is, that the good are like one another, and friends to one another; and that the bad, as is often said of them, are never at unity with one another or with themselves; for they are passionate and restless, and anything which is at variance and enmity with itself is not likely to be in union or harmony with any other thing
Source: Plato, Lysis

And, therefore, my dear Meno, I fear that I must begin again and repeat the same question: What is virtue? for otherwise, I can only say, that every action done with a part of virtue is virtue; what else is the meaning of saying that every action done with justice is virtue? Ought I not to ask the question over again; for can any one who does not know virtue know a part of virtue? MENO: No; I do not say that he can
Source: Plato, Meno

What is the meaning of the hypothesis--If the one is not; is there any difference between this and the hypothesis--If the not one is not? There is a difference, certainly
Source: Plato, Parmenides

But I wanted to see whether I could purge away a scruple which I felt about the meaning of certain dreams
Source: Plato, Phaedo The Last Hours Of Socrates

SOCRATES: The words of the wise are not to be set aside; for there is probably something in them; and therefore the meaning of this saying is not hastily to be dismissed
Source: Plato, Phaedrus

COMPANION: What is the meaning of this? Has anything happened between you and him? For surely you cannot have discovered a fairer love than he is; certainly not in this city of Athens
Source: Plato, Protagoras

THEAETETUS: What do you mean? STRANGER: You want to know what is the meaning of food for the soul; the other kind you surely understand
Source: Plato, Sophist

Any one who pays the least attention to the subject will also perceive that in music there is the same reconciliation of opposites; and I suppose that this must have been the meaning of Heracleitus, although his words are not accurate; for he says that The One is united by disunion, like the harmony of the bow and the lyre
Source: Plato, Symposium

But see the consequence:--Many a man who is ignorant of human nature has friends who are bad friends, and in that case he ought to do harm to them; and he has good enemies whom he ought to benefit; but, if so, we shall be saying the very opposite of that which we affirmed to be the meaning of Simonides
Source: Plato, The Republic

If a person does not attend to the meaning of terms as they are commonly used in argument, he may be involved even in greater paradoxes than these
Source: Plato, Theaetetus

And he who would understand what he remembers to have been said, whether in a dream or when he was awake, by the prophetic and inspired nature, or would determine by reason the meaning of the apparitions which he has seen, and what indications they afford to this man or that, of past, present or future good and evil, must first recover his wits
Source: Plato, Timaeus

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