| 398BCE | The Apology |
| 38a | p.33 | 24224 | An unexamined life is not worth living. |
| 38a | p.125 | 1655 | If goodness needs true opinion but not knowledge, you can skip the 'examined life' [Vlastos] |
| 395BCE | Laches |
| 188b | p.96 | 291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age |
| 197b | p.109 | 293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things |
| 391BCE | Protagoras |
| 320b | p.51 | 188 | Socrates: I do not believe virtue can be taught |
| 324c | p.56 | 189 | If we punish wrong-doers, it shows that we believe virtue can be taught |
| 330c | p.62 | 190 | If asked whether justice itself is just or unjust, you would have to say that it is just |
| 331d | p.64 | 191 | Everything resembles everything else up to a point |
| 332c | p.65 | 192 | Only one thing can be contrary to something |
| 333e | p.67 | 193 | Some things are good even though they are not beneficial to men |
| 345b | p.776 | 20184 | The only real evil is loss of knowledge |
| 351d | p.88 | 197 | Some pleasures are not good, and some pains are not evil |
| 352d | p.782 | 20185 | The most important things in life are wisdom and knowledge |
| 354a | p.90 | 200 | People tend only to disapprove of pleasure if it leads to pain, or prevents future pleasure |
| 358d | p.95 | 202 | No one willingly and knowingly embraces evil |
| 360d | p.98 | 203 | Courage is knowing what should or shouldn't be feared |
| 361b | p.99 | 204 | Socrates is contradicting himself in claiming virtue can't be taught, but that it is knowledge |
| 389BCE | Euthyphro |
| 07e | p.27 | 335 | Do the gods also hold different opinions about what is right and honourable? |
| 10a | p.31 | 336 | Is what is pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because they love it? (the 'Euthyphro Question') |
| 10e | p.31 | 337 | It seems that the gods love things because they are pious, rather than making them pious by loving them |
| 385BCE | Euthydemus |
| 284a | p.721 | 24232 | Truth is speaking what is and things that are |
| 284c | p.721 | 24233 | If speech is making something, then lies are impossible |
| 289b | p.726 | 16120 | Knowing how to achieve immortality is pointless without the knowledge how to use immortality |
| 292b | p.349 | 301 | Only knowledge of some sort is good |
| 293a | p.351 | 302 | What knowledge is required to live well? |
| 294c | p.353 | 303 | Say how many teeth the other has, then count them. If you are right, we will trust your other claims |
| 301a | p.366 | 304 | Beautiful things must be different from beauty itself, but beauty itself must be present in each of them |
| 306a | p.374 | 305 | Something which lies midway between two evils is better than either of them |
| 383BCE | Lysis |
| 214d | p.147 | 294 | People say that friendship exists only between good men |
| 216d | p.150 | 295 | The good is beautiful |
| 382BCE | Hippias Major |
| 297b | p.255 | 297 | What is fine is the parent of goodness |
| 299a | p.257 | 298 | While sex is very pleasant, it should be in secret, as it looks contemptible |
| 304e | p.265 | 299 | What is fine is always difficult |
| 378BCE | Gorgias |
| p.117 | 1654 | In "Gorgias" Socrates is confident that his 'elenchus' will decide moral truth [Vlastos] |
| 451e | p.11 | 4320 | The popular view is that health is first, good looks second, and honest wealth third |
| 455a | p.17 | 114 | Rhetoric can produce conviction, but not educate people about right and wrong |
| 462a | p.28 | 4321 | We should test one another, by asking and answering questions |
| 465a | p.32 | 116 | Rhetoric is irrational about its means and its ends |
| 469c | p.40 | 118 | I would rather be a victim of crime than a criminal |
| 470e | p.815 | 24223 | Admirable people are happy, and unjust people are miserable |
| 472e | p.46 | 119 | A criminal is worse off if he avoids punishment |
| 480a | p.60 | 120 | Should we avoid evil because it will bring us bad consequences? |
| 483b | p.65 | 122 | Moral rules are made by the weak members of humanity |
| 483c | p.66 | 123 | Do most people like equality because they are second-rate? |
| 483d | p.66 | 124 | Does nature imply that it is right for better people to have greater benefits? |
| 485d | p.68 | 125 | Is a gifted philosopher unmanly if he avoids the strife of the communal world? |
| 491e | p.79 | 128 | Is it natural to simply indulge our selfish desires? |
| 492a | p.79 | 129 | Do most people praise self-discipline and justice because they are too timid to gain their own pleasure? |
| 492c | p.79 | 130 | Is the happiest state one of sensual, self-indulgent freedom? |
| 492e | p.80 | 131 | If absence of desire is happiness, then nothing is happier than a stone or a corpse |
| 493b | p.80 | 4319 | In a fool's mind desire is like a leaky jar, insatiable in its desires, and order and contentment are better |
| 494c | p.82 | 132 | If happiness is the satisfaction of desires, then a life of scratching itches should be happiness |
| 497d | p.88 | 4322 | In slaking our thirst the goodness of the action and the pleasure are clearly separate |
| 498c | p.90 | 134 | Good and bad people seem to experience equal amounts of pleasure and pain |
| 499e | p.93 | 135 | All activity aims at the good |
| 500a | p.93 | 136 | Good should be the aim of pleasant activity, not the other way round |
| 506e | p.104 | 137 | As with other things, a good state is organised and orderly |
| 507c | p.105 | 139 | A good person is bound to act well, and this brings happiness |
| 507e | p.106 | 140 | Self-indulgent desire makes friendship impossible, because it makes a person incapable of co-operation |
| 517b | p.120 | 141 | A good citizen won't be passive, but will redirect the needs of the state |
| 376BCE | Meno |
| 70a | p.115 | 1913 | Is virtue taught, or achieved by practice, or a natural aptitude, or what? |
| 72b | p.117 | 24284 | We want the character which makes all bees the same, or all virtues somehow the same |
| 72c | p.117 | 1916 | Even if virtues are many and various, they must have something in common to make them virtues |
| 79c | p.127 | 1918 | How can you know part of virtue without knowing the whole? |
| 80d | p.880 | 11259 | How can you seek knowledge of something if you don't know it? |
| 80e | p.128 | 1919 | You don't need to learn what you know, and how do you seek for what you don't know? |
| 81d | p.880 | 5985 | Seeking and learning are just recollection |
| 85d | p.886 | 5986 | The slave boy learns geometry from questioning, not teaching, so it is recollection |
| 87c | p.141 | 1921 | If virtue is a type of knowledge then it ought to be taught |
| 88c | p.142 | 1922 | Spiritual qualities only become advantageous with the growth of wisdom |
| 97b | p.153 | 1923 | As a guide to action, true opinion is as good as knowledge |
| 98a | p.895 | 20219 | True opinions only become really valuable when they are tied down by reasons |
| 99e | p.156 | 1927 | It seems that virtue is neither natural nor taught, but is a divine gift |
| 375BCE | Cratylus |
| 385b | p.105 | 13776 | Truths say of what is that it is, falsehoods say of what is that it is not |
| 385e | p.103 | 13772 | Is the being or essence of each thing private to each person? |
| 386d | p.104 | 13774 | Things don't have every attribute, and essence isn't private, so each thing has an essence |
| 387a | p.104 | 13775 | We only succeed in cutting if we use appropriate tools, not if we approach it randomly |
| 388a | p.106 | 13777 | A name is a sort of tool |
| 390c | p.109 | 13778 | A dialectician is someone who knows how to ask and to answer questions |
| 393b | p.112 | 13779 | The natural offspring of a lion is called a 'lion' (but what about the offspring of a king?) |
| 398b | p.116 | 13780 | Good people are no different from wise ones |
| 399d | p.118 | 13781 | Soul causes the body to live, and gives it power to breathe and to be revitalized |
| 406c | p.124 | 13783 | Even the gods love play |
| 415d | p.133 | 13785 | 'Arete' signifies lack of complexity and a free-flowing soul |
| 416d | p.134 | 13786 | Wisdom is called 'beautiful', because it performs fine works |
| 423e | p.140 | 13787 | Doesn't each thing have an essence, just as it has other qualities? |
| 432c | p.148 | 13788 | If we made a perfect duplicate of Cratylus, there would be two Cratyluses |
| 435d | p.151 | 13789 | Anyone who knows a thing's name also knows the thing |
| 436c | p.152 | 13790 | A name-giver might misname something, then force other names to conform to it |
| 438b | p.153 | 13791 | Things must be known before they are named, so it can't be the names that give us knowledge |
| 439e | p.155 | 2063 | How can beauty have identity if it changes? |
| 440a | p.155 | 13792 | There can't be any knowledge if things are constantly changing |
| 375BCE | works |
| p.8 | 9607 | The greatest discovery in human thought is Plato's discovery of abstract objects [Brown,JR] |
| p.16 | 11237 | Only universals have essence [Politis] |
| p.16 | 11238 | Plato and Aristotle take essence to make a thing what it is [Politis] |
| p.34 | 557 | A Form is a cause of things only in the way that white mixed with white is a cause [Aristotle] |
| p.34 | 556 | If there is one Form for both the Form and its participants, they must have something in common [Aristotle] |
| p.43 | 2173 | As religion and convention collapsed, Plato sought morals not just in knowledge, but in the soul [Williams,B] |
| p.57 | 9274 | Plato's legacy to European thought was the Good, the Beautiful and the True [Gray] |
| p.58 | 17085 | A good explanation totally rules out the opposite explanation (so Forms are required) [Ruben] |
| p.61 | 23890 | For Plato true wisdom is supernatural [Weil] |
| p.62 | 563 | If gods are like men, they are just eternal men; similarly, Forms must differ from particulars [Aristotle] |
| p.64 | 565 | The Forms cannot be changeless if they are in changing things [Aristotle] |
| p.70 | 23891 | Two contradictories force us to find a relation which will correlate them [Weil] |
| p.81 | 3324 | Plato's whole philosophy may be based on being duped by reification - a figure of speech [Benardete,JA] |
| p.88 | 1651 | Plato wanted to somehow control and purify the passions [Vlastos] |
| p.96 | 13260 | Plato says wholes are either containers, or they're atomic, or they don't exist [Koslicki] |
| p.98 | 13261 | Plato sees an object's structure as expressible in mathematics [Koslicki] |
| p.98 | 14502 | Plato's idea of 'structure' tends to be mathematically expressed [Koslicki] |
| p.100 | 13263 | We can grasp whole things in science, because they have a mathematics and a teleology [Koslicki] |
| p.103 | 20906 | Platonists argue for the indivisible triangle-in-itself [Aristotle] |
| p.106 | 2912 | Plato is boring [Nietzsche] |
| p.117 | 17947 | Plato decided that the virtuous and happy life was the philosophical life [Nehamas] |
| p.118 | 17948 | Plato's Forms meant that the sophists only taught the appearance of wisdom and virtue [Nehamas] |
| p.120 | 13265 | Plato was less concerned than Aristotle with the source of unity in a complex object [Koslicki] |
| p.171 | 593 | Plato's holds that there are three substances: Forms, mathematical entities, and perceptible bodies [Aristotle] |
| p.175 | 1526 | Almost everyone except Plato thinks that time could not have been generated [Aristotle] |
| p.276 | 7503 | Plato never refers to examining the conscience [Foucault] |
| p.314 | 94 | Pleasure is better with the addition of intelligence, so pleasure is not the good [Aristotle] |
| p.336 | 3039 | When Diogenes said he could only see objects but not their forms, Plato said it was because he had eyes but no intellect [Diog. Laertius] |
| p.393 | 3060 | Plato never mentions Democritus, and wished to burn his books [Diog. Laertius] |
| p.405 | 6015 | Plato, unusually, said that theoretical and practical wisdom are inseparable [Kraut] |
| 374BCE | Phaedo |
| 058a | p.50 | 16516 | The ship which Theseus took to Crete is now sent to Delos crowned with flowers |
| 062a | p.6 | 24262 | Sometimes, and for some people, death is better than life |
| 062b | p.6 | 24263 | We belong to the gods, and only kill ourselves if they indicate some necessity |
| 063a | p.7 | 24264 | Cebes responds critically to every idea he hears |
| 063b | p.8 | 24265 | After death I expect to join the wise gods, and good men |
| 065c | p.109 | 350 | In investigation the body leads us astray, but the soul gets a clear view of the facts |
| 066c | p.111 | 351 | War aims at the acquisition of wealth, because we are enslaved to the body |
| 066c | p.111 | 9343 | To achieve pure knowledge, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things with the soul |
| 068c | p.15 | 24266 | Normal temperance - scorn and control of desires - needs contempt of the body, and wisdom |
| 068e | p.15 | 24267 | Well-ordering is not temperance; it is just fear of pleasure becoming excessive |
| 069b | p.115 | 354 | Wisdom makes virtue and true goodness possible |
| 070a | p.16 | 24268 | It is a common fear that the soul may entirely disperse immediately after death |
| 073a | p.121 | 357 | People are obviously recollecting when they react to a geometrical diagram |
| 073c | p.22 | 24269 | When lovers see a beloved's lyre, they immediately think of the beloved |
| 074e | p.124 | 359 | If we feel the inadequacy of a resemblance, we must recollect the original |
| 075a | p.124 | 360 | We must have a prior knowledge of equality, if we see 'equal' things and realise they fall short of it |
| 075b | p.24 | 24270 | If we perceive equals, we need prior knowledge of the equal in itself |
| 075d | p.66 | 24230 | The Forms arise whenever we talk of something 'in itself'. |
| 076b | p.26 | 24271 | If a man knows something, he can give an account of it |
| 078d | p.69 | 24225 | Things like the Equal and the Beautiful, which are real, must be unchanging |
| 079d | p.70 | 24226 | The soul on its own enters a pure, unchanging and eternal realm, and experiences wisdom |
| 082e | p.35 | 24272 | Philosophy reveals that the senses are extremely deceptive |
| 083c | p.136 | 361 | It is a mistake to think that the most violent pleasure or pain is therefore the truest reality |
| 089d | p.144 | 362 | The greatest misfortune for a person is to develop a dislike for argument |
| 091c | p.45 | 24273 | Simmias fears that the beautiful soul is attunement of the body, and dies with it |
| 091d | p.45 | 24274 | Critias thinks soul survives death into another body, but that process may still terminate |
| 092d | p.148 | 363 | Whether the soul pre-exists our body depends on whether it contains the ultimate standard of reality |
| 093b | p.149 | 364 | One soul can't be more or less of a soul than another |
| 096e | p.84 | 15859 | To investigate the causes of things, study what is best for them |
| 097a | p.153 | 13154 | Do we think and experience with blood, air or fire, or could it be our brain? |
| 097d | p.154 | 13155 | If you add one to one, which one becomes two, or do they both become two? |
| 099c | p.157 | 13156 | Fancy being unable to distinguish a cause from its necessary background conditions! |
| 100c | p.159 | 1 | There is only one source for all beauty |
| 100e | p.57 | 24275 | Whether things are large or small needs the Forms of largeness and smallness |
| 101c | p.87 | 24227 | One and one can only become two by sharing in Twoness |
| 101e | p.58 | 24276 | If you want to discover facts, don't muddle the start of enquiry with its conclusion |
| 102a | p.161 | 368 | Other things are named after the Forms because they participate in them |
| 102b-c | p.88 | 21347 | If Simmias is taller than Socrates, that isn't a feature that is just in Simmias |
| 103d | p.61 | 24277 | Snow ceases to be snow if it admits the hot; it is the same if fire admits the cold |
| 104e | p.63 | 24278 | Threeness brings up oddness, which won't admit evenness |
| 105c | p.64 | 24279 | We no longer explain a hot body by 'heat', but by its containing fire |
| 108e | p.171 | 369 | If the Earth is spherical and in the centre, it is kept in place by universal symmetry, not by force |
| 114b | p.178 | 370 | Philosophy is a purification of the soul ready for the afterlife |
| 373BCE | The Symposium |
| 180b | p.45 | 14177 | Love assists men in achieving merit and happiness |
| 184c | p.51 | 170 | The only slavery which is not dishonourable is slavery to excellence |
| 187c | p.55 | 171 | Music is a knowledge of love in the realm of harmony and rhythm |
| 201a | p.78 | 172 | Love of ugliness is impossible |
| 201c | p.78 | 173 | Beauty and goodness are the same |
| 202a | p.80 | 174 | True opinion without reason is midway between wisdom and ignorance |
| 202c | p.80 | 14178 | Happiness is secure enjoyment of what is good and beautiful |
| 204a | p.82 | 175 | Gods are not lovers of wisdom, because they are already wise |
| 204b | p.83 | 176 | Love follows beauty, wisdom is exceptionally beautiful, so love follows wisdom |
| 205a | p.84 | 177 | If a person is good they will automatically become happy |
| 206a | p.86 | 179 | Love is desire for perpetual possession of the good |
| 206d | p.489 | 4026 | Beauty is harmony with what is divine, and ugliness is lack of such harmony |
| 207d | p.88 | 180 | We call a person the same throughout life, but all their attributes change |
| 208b | p.89 | 181 | Only the gods stay unchanged; we replace our losses with similar acquisitions |
| 209a | p.90 | 14179 | The finest branch of wisdom is justice and moderation in ordering states and families |
| 210a | p.92 | 182 | The first step on the right path is the contemplation of physical beauty when young |
| 210a4- | p.199 | 1607 | Diotima said the Forms are the objects of desire in philosophical discourse [Roochnik] |
| 210b | p.92 | 183 | Stage two is the realisation that beauty of soul is of more value than beauty of body |
| 211b | p.55 | 24285 | Beauty itself is eternal, and beautiful objects partake of it, but never change it |
| 211c | p.94 | 184 | Progress goes from physical beauty, to moral beauty, to the beauty of knowledge, and reaches absolute beauty |
| 212a | p.56 | 24286 | Perceiving true beauty leads to truth, and hence to goodness |
| 372BCE | Clitophon* |
| 410b | p.101 | 1590 | The just man does not harm his enemies, but benefits everyone |
| 371BCE | The Republic |
| p.25 | 6562 | Plato's reality has unchanging Parmenidean forms, and Heraclitean flux [Fogelin] |
| p.27 | 4115 | Plato found that he could only enforce rational moral justification by creating an authoritarian society [Williams,B] |
| p.63 | 5094 | Plato's Forms are said to have no location in space [Aristotle] |
| p.79 | 5945 | The 'Republic' is a great work of rhetorical theory [Lawson-Tancred] |
| p.82 | 12043 | Forms are not universals, as they don't cover every general term [Annas] |
| p.82 | 2630 | If Plato's God is immaterial, he will lack consciousness, wisdom, pleasure and movement, which are essential to him [Cicero] |
| p.91 | 1869 | The good cannot be expressed in words, but imprints itself upon the soul [Celsus] |
| p.110 | 12122 | Plato mistakenly thought forms were totally abstracted away from matter [Bacon] |
| p.395 | 5574 | Plato's Forms not only do not come from the senses, but they are beyond possibility of sensing [Kant] |
| 331c | p.8 | 7 | Surely you don't return a borrowed weapon to a mad friend? |
| 332d | p.10 | 2092 | Simonides said morality is helping one's friends and harming one's enemies |
| 338c | p.18 | 5 | Justice is merely the interests of the stronger party |
| 339a | p.19 | 8 | Is right just the interests of the powerful? |
| 339b | p.345 | 6009 | Psychic conflict is clear if appetite is close to the body and reason fairly separate [Modrak] |
| 350e | p.37 | 2093 | You must never go against what you actually believe |
| 353a | p.40 | 2094 | A thing's function is what it alone can do, or what it does better than other things |
| 353b | p.41 | 2095 | If something has a function then it has a state of being good |
| 353d | p.41 | 2096 | Is the function of the mind management, authority and planning - or is it one's whole way of life? |
| 359a | p.46 | 19946 | Morality is a compromise, showing restraint, to avoid suffering wrong without compensation |
| 359a | p.46 | 10 | After a taste of mutual harm, men make a legal contract to avoid it |
| 360c | p.48 | 12 | If we were invisible, would the just man become like the unjust? |
| 363d | p.51 | 13 | Is the supreme reward for virtue to be drunk for eternity? |
| 365b | p.53 | 2097 | Isn't it better to have a reputation for goodness than to actually be good? |
| 365d | p.54 | 14 | If the gods are non-existent or indifferent, why bother to deceive them? |
| 365e | p.54 | 15 | Sin first, then sacrifice to the gods from the proceeds |
| 366c | p.55 | 16 | We avoid evil either through a natural aversion, or because we have acquired knowledge |
| 369b | p.117 | 19889 | People need society because the individual has too many needs |
| 369c | p.118 | 19890 | All exchanges in a community are for mutual benefit |
| 379c | p.74 | 2120 | God is responsible for the good things, but we must look elsewhere for the cause of the bad things |
| 380e | p.1019 | 2061 | The best things (gods, healthy bodies, good souls) are least liable to change |
| 394d | p.90 | 23767 | The winds of the discussion should decide its destination |
| 402e | p.101 | 2123 | Excessive pleasure deranges people, making the other virtues impossible |
| 427e | p.133 | 2126 | A good community necessarily has wisdom, courage, self-discipline and morality |
| 433d | p.1065 | 23561 | People doing their jobs properly is the fourth cardinal virtue for a city |
| 439b | p.149 | 2127 | The mind has parts, because we have inner conflicts |
| 439b | p.212 | 1737 | The soul seems to have an infinity of parts [Aristotle] |
| 439e | p.127 | 24291 | A man was disgusted by corpses, but he angrily overruled his appetite |
| 441a | p.152 | 6041 | There is a third element to the mind - spirit - lying between reason and appetite |
| 441d | p.1073 | 23562 | If the parts of our soul do their correct work, we will be just people, and will act justly |
| 444e | p.157 | 2129 | Goodness is mental health, badness is mental sickness |
| 454a | p.165 | 2130 | People often merely practise eristic instead of dialectic, because they don't analyse the subject-matter |
| 456e | p.169 | 2131 | Is there anything better for a community than to produce excellent people? |
| 473d | p.193 | 2132 | Only rule by philosophers of integrity can keep a community healthy |
| 476c | p.1103 | 24228 | Believers in the beautiful see that it is separate from things that participate in it |
| 479e | p.202 | 2133 | Knowledge must be of the permanent unchanging nature of things |
| 485d | p.205 | 2134 | Philosophers are concerned with totally non-physical pleasures |
| 486d | p.206 | 2135 | Truth is closely related to proportion |
| 500c | p.1121 | 24229 | The true reality is organised and harmonised in a rational order |
| 500d | p.224 | 2136 | Philosophers become as divine and orderly as possible, by studying divinity and order |
| 504e | p.302 | 23682 | It would be absurd to be precise about the small things, but only vague about the big things |
| 505a | p.230 | 2137 | The main aim is to understand goodness, which gives everything its value and advantage |
| 505b | p.230 | 2138 | Pleasure is commonly thought to be the good, though the more ingenious prefer knowledge |
| 505c | p.231 | 2070 | Even people who think pleasure is the good admit that there are bad pleasures |
| 505d | p.70 | 4007 | For Plato we abandon honour and pleasure once we see the Good [Taylor,C] |
| 505d | p.231 | 2139 | Every person, and every activity, aims at the good |
| 506c | p.232 | 2140 | True belief without knowledge is like blind people on the right road |
| 506e | p.233 | 2141 | I suggest that we forget about trying to define goodness itself for the time being |
| 507b | p.233 | 2142 | The plurality of beautiful things must belong to a single class, because they have a single particular character |
| 508c | p.235 | 2143 | Good has the same role in the world of knowledge as the sun has in the physical world |
| 508e | p.236 | 2144 | Goodness makes truth and knowledge possible |
| 509b | p.1130 | 21818 | Being depends on the Good, which is not itself being, but superior to being |
| 510c | p.238 | 2145 | In mathematics certain things have to be accepted without further explanation |
| 517c | p.244 | 2147 | The sight of goodness leads to all that is fine and true and right |
| 518c | p.245 | 2148 | To gain knowledge, turn away from the world of change, and focus on true goodness |
| 518d | p.308 | 4547 | Plato measured the degree of reality by the degree of value [Nietzsche] |
| 520d | p.248 | 2149 | Reluctant rulers make a better and more unified administration |
| 525a | p.1141 | 9861 | The same thing is both one and an unlimited number at the same time |
| 525b | p.1142 | 9862 | To become rational, philosophers must rise from becoming into being |
| 525d | p.1142 | 9863 | We aim for elevated discussion of pure numbers, not attaching them to physical objects |
| 526a | p.1142 | 9864 | In pure numbers, all ones are equal, with no internal parts |
| 527a | p.258 | 8727 | Geometry is not an activity, but the study of unchanging knowledge |
| 527b | p.258 | 8726 | Geometry can lead the mind upwards to truth and philosophy |
| 533c | p.266 | 2151 | Dialectic is the only method of inquiry which uproots the things which it takes for granted |
| 534e | p.268 | 2152 | Dialectic is the highest and most important part of the curriculum |
| 536e | p.271 | 2153 | Compulsory intellectual work never remains in the mind |
| 537c | p.271 | 2154 | The ability to take an overview is the distinguishing mark of a dialectician |
| 537d | p.92 | 4011 | For Plato, rationality is a vision of and love of a cosmic rational order [Taylor,C] |
| 554e | p.292 | 2155 | True goodness requires mental unity and harmony |
| 577e | p.20 | 23316 | For Plato and Aristotle there is no will; there is only rational desire for what is seen as good [Frede,M] |
| 580d | p.326 | 2156 | There are three types of pleasure, for reason, for spirit and for appetite |
| 584b | p.332 | 2157 | Nice smells are intensive, have no preceding pain, and no bad after-effect |
| 586b | p.335 | 2158 | Pleasure-seekers desperately seek illusory satisfaction, like filling a leaky vessel |
| 596a | p.345 | 17 | A Form applies to a set of particular things with the same name |
| 596b | p.345 | 2159 | Craftsmen making furniture refer to the form, but no one manufactures the form of furniture |
| 601a | p.1205 | 16565 | Without the surface decoration, poetry shows only appearances and nothing of what is real |
| 602c | p.354 | 2160 | Representation is two steps removed from the truth |
| 603a | p.355 | 2162 | If theory and practice conflict, the best part of the mind accepts theory, so the other part is of lower grade |
| 605b | p.358 | 2163 | Artists should be excluded from a law-abiding community, because they destroy the rational mind |
| 608e | p.364 | 2164 | Bad is always destructive, where good preserves and benefits |
| 611b | p.367 | 2165 | Something is unlikely to be immortal if it is imperfectly made from diverse parts |
| 612b | p.368 | 2166 | We should behave well even if invisible, for the health of the mind |
| 613b | p.370 | 2168 | Clever criminals do well at first, but not in the long run |
| Ch.9 | p.70 | 5944 | For Plato, virtue is its own reward [Lawson-Tancred] |
| 368BCE | Phaedrus |
| p.113 | 23997 | Plato saw emotions and appetites as wild horses, in need of taming [Goldie] |
| 237d | p.36 | 143 | The two ruling human principles are the natural desire for pleasure, and an acquired love of virtue |
| 237e | p.37 | 144 | Reason impels us towards excellence, which teaches us self-control |
| 245c | p.49 | 146 | Soul is always in motion, so it must be self-moving and immortal |
| 245d | p.49 | 148 | If the prime origin is destroyed, it will not come into being again out of anything |
| 245e | p.49 | 9296 | The soul is self-motion |
| 246d | p.51 | 150 | We cannot conceive of God, so we have to think of Him as an immortal version of ourselves |
| 246d | p.51 | 149 | There isn't a single reason for positing the existence of immortal beings |
| 247c | p.52 | 151 | True knowledge is of the reality behind sense experience |
| 247d | p.52 | 152 | The mind of God is fully satisfied and happy with a vision of reality and truth |
| 249b | p.55 | 153 | It takes a person to understand, by using universals, and by using reason to create a unity out of sense-impressions |
| 250d | p.57 | 154 | We would have an overpowering love of knowledge if we had a pure idea of it - as with the other Forms |
| 250e | p.57 | 155 | Beauty is the clearest and most lovely of the Forms |
| 255b | p.63 | 156 | Bad people are never really friends with one another |
| 258e | p.69 | 157 | Most pleasure is release from pain, and is therefore not worthwhile |
| 259e | p.71 | 158 | An excellent speech seems to imply a knowledge of the truth in the mind of the speaker |
| 261a | p.73 | 159 | Only a good philosopher can be a good speaker |
| 265d | p.82 | 7953 | Reasoning needs to cut nature accurately at the joints |
| 266b | p.82 | 160 | The highest ability in man is the ability to discuss unity and plurality in the nature of things |
| 266b | p.543 | 16121 | I revere anyone who can discern a single thing that encompasses many things |
| 270c | p.89 | 162 | Can we understand an individual soul without knowing the soul in general? |
| 272e | p.93 | 165 | If the apparent facts strongly conflict with probability, it is in everyone's interests to suppress the facts |
| 277b | p.100 | 166 | A speaker should be able to divide a subject, right down to the limits of divisibility |
| Ch.10 | p.85 | 5946 | 'Phaedrus' pioneers the notion of philosophical rhetoric [Lawson-Tancred] |
| 366BCE | Parmenides |
| p.27 | 16151 | Plato moves from Forms to a theory of genera and principles in his later work [Frede,M] |
| p.28 | 13986 | Plato found antinomies in ideas, Kant in space and time, and Bradley in relations [Ryle] |
| p.44 | 8937 | Plato's 'Parmenides' is the greatest artistic achievement of the ancient dialectic [Hegel] |
| p.105 | 15846 | In Parmenides, if composition is identity, a whole is nothing more than its parts [Harte,V] |
| p.355 | 14150 | Plato's 'Parmenides' is perhaps the best collection of antinomies ever made [Russell] |
| p.357 | 21821 | Plato's Parmenides has a three-part theory, of Primal One, a One-Many, and a One-and-Many [Plotinus] |
| 130d | p.211 | 210 | It would be absurd to think there were abstract Forms for vile things like hair, mud and dirt |
| 130d | p.213 | 211 | If admirable things have Forms, maybe everything else does as well |
| 131a | p.131 | 24282 | A form is wholly present in many different things (just as a day is present in many places) |
| 131a | p.131 | 24287 | If a Form exists completely in may things, then it is separated from itself |
| 131a | p.213 | 212 | The whole idea of each Form must be found in each thing which participates in it |
| 131b | p.215 | 213 | Each idea is in all its participants at once, just as daytime is a unity but in many separate places at once |
| 131c | p.132 | 24292 | Are many people covered by a whole sail, or each person by a part of it? |
| 132a | p.217 | 214 | If absolute greatness and great things are seen as the same, another thing appears which makes them seem great |
| 132b-c | p.133 | 24293 | Maybe thoughts are just thoughts in minds - but how then do they cover many instances? |
| 132c | p.134 | 24288 | Probably partaking in the Forms is like being modeled on a pattern |
| 132c | p.219 | 215 | If things partake of ideas, this implies either that everything thinks, or that everything actually is thought |
| 132d | p.134 | 24283 | It is most likely that forms are patterns, and a thing partakes by being modelled on the form |
| 132e | p.221 | 216 | If things are made alike by participating in something, that thing will be the absolute idea |
| 133a | p.221 | 218 | Participation is not by means of similarity, so we are looking for some other method of participation |
| 133a | p.221 | 217 | Nothing can be like an absolute idea, because a third idea intervenes to make them alike (leading to a regress) |
| 133b | p.135 | 24289 | Forms are very difficult, if we must posit a new Form every time we make a distinction |
| 133c | p.223 | 219 | If absolute ideas existed in us, they would cease to be absolute |
| 133e | p.136 | 24290 | The master-slave relationships are between people, not between mastery and slavery |
| 134c | p.227 | 221 | Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us |
| 134d | p.137 | 24294 | The powers of forms and powers of our world are quite separate |
| 135a | p.227 | 222 | Only a great person can understand the essence of things, and an even greater person can teach it |
| 135c | p.229 | 223 | If you deny that each thing always stays the same, you destroy the possibility of discussion |
| 135e | p.231 | 224 | When questions are doubtful we should concentrate not on objects but on ideas of the intellect |
| 136b-c | p.140 | 24295 | To find the truth about the being of something, you must study all of its consequences |
| 137c09 | p.95 | 13259 | It seems that the One must be composed of parts, which contradicts its being one |
| 137e | p.237 | 225 | The unlimited has no shape and is endless |
| 138b | p.372 | 2062 | The only movement possible for the One is in space or in alteration |
| 139a | p.143 | 24296 | The one is completely unmoving, because no types of motion are possible for it |
| 141d-142a | p.375 | 24231 | The One is timeless, has no being or identity, and cannot be known |
| 144a | p.377 | 16150 | One is, so numbers exist, so endless numbers exist, and each one must partake of being |
| 146b | p.379 | 15847 | Two things relate either as same or different, or part of a whole, or the whole of the part |
| 147d | p.269 | 227 | You must always mean the same thing when you utter the same name |
| 149e | p.277 | 228 | Greatness and smallness must exist, to be opposed to one another, and come into being in things |
| 151e | p.158 | 24297 | Is existence just being combined with time? |
| 152c | p.159 | 24298 | What is becoming can't avoid the now, and then it ceases to become, and is itself |
| 154b | p.161 | 24299 | Equals added to unequals maintain the difference between them |
| 155d | p.295 | 229 | The one was and is and will be and was becoming and is becoming and will become |
| 156d | p.163 | 24300 | The instant has no time, but change moves to rest in an instant |
| 157c | p.123 | 15849 | Plato says only a one has parts, and a many does not [Harte,V] |
| 157c | p.301 | 231 | Everything partakes of the One in some way |
| 157c | p.389 | 15850 | Anything which has parts must be one thing, and parts are of a one, not of a many |
| 157d | p.389 | 15851 | Parts must belong to a created thing with a distinct form |
| 158c | p.166 | 24301 | If we subtract a part from a multitude, will that part not itself be a multitude? |
| 159a | p.307 | 232 | Opposites are as unlike as possible |
| 159d | p.309 | 233 | Some things do not partake of the One |
| 160d | p.313 | 234 | We couldn't discuss the non-existence of the One without knowledge of it |
| 166b | p.175 | 24302 | Without oneness we can't conceive of many |
| 364BCE | Theaetetus |
| 152c | p.31 | 2045 | Perception is infallible, suggesting that it is knowledge |
| 158b | p.42 | 2047 | What evidence can be brought to show whether we are dreaming or not? |
| 167a | p.57 | 2050 | It is impossible to believe something which is held to be false |
| 167e | p.58 | 2052 | Eristic discussion is aggressive, but dialectic aims to help one's companions in discussion |
| 171a | p.64 | 2053 | If you claim that all beliefs are true, that includes beliefs opposed to your own |
| 171e | p.65 | 2054 | Clearly some people are superior to others when it comes to medicine |
| 172d | p.67 | 2056 | Philosophers are always switching direction to something more interesting |
| 176a | p.72 | 2057 | There must always be some force of evil ranged against good |
| 176c | p.73 | 2058 | God must be the epitome of goodness, and we can only approach a divine state by being as good as possible |
| 178c | p.76 | 2059 | How can a relativist form opinions about what will happen in the future? |
| 181d | p.81 | 2060 | There seem to be two sorts of change: alteration and motion |
| 184d | p.86 | 2067 | Our senses could have been separate, but they converge on one mind |
| 185d | p.88 | 2068 | With what physical faculty do we perceive pairs of opposed abstract qualities? |
| 186c | p.90 | 2069 | Thought must grasp being itself before truth becomes possible |
| 189a | p.95 | 2076 | How can a belief exist if its object doesn't exist? |
| 195e | p.106 | 2078 | You might mistake eleven for twelve in your senses, but not in your mind |
| 198b | p.219 | 10216 | We master arithmetic by knowing all the numbers in our soul |
| 201d | p.115 | 2080 | Things are only knowable if a rational account (logos) is possible |
| 201e | p.116 | 2081 | Maybe primary elements can be named, but not receive a rational account |
| 202b | p.116 | 2082 | A rational account is essentially a weaving together of things with names |
| 202b01-3 | p.223 | 15854 | A primary element has only a name, and no logos, but complexes have an account, by weaving the names |
| 204e | p.227 | 15843 | The whole can't be the parts, because it would be all of the parts, which is the whole |
| 205a | p.227 | 15844 | A sum is that from which nothing is lacking, which is a whole |
| 205b | p.121 | 2083 | Either a syllable is its letters (making parts as knowable as whole) or it isn't (meaning it has no parts) |
| 205d | p.122 | 2084 | If a word has no parts and has a single identity, it turns out to be the same kind of thing as a letter |
| 205e | p.123 | 2085 | Parts and wholes are either equally knowable or equally unknowable |
| 206b | p.123 | 2086 | Understanding mainly involves knowing the elements, not their combinations |
| 206d | p.124 | 2087 | A rational account might be seeing an image of one's belief, like a reflection in a mirror |
| 207b | p.125 | 2088 | A rational account of a wagon would mean knowledge of its hundred parts |
| 207c | p.230 | 16126 | Expertise is knowledge of the whole by means of the parts |
| 208b | p.126 | 2089 | An inadequate rational account would still not justify knowledge |
| 208c | p.127 | 2090 | A rational account involves giving an image, or analysis, or giving a differentiating mark |
| 209b | p.128 | 2091 | Without distinguishing marks, how do I know what my beliefs are about? |
| 362BCE | Timaeus |
| p.81 | 12042 | Plato's Forms were seen as part of physics, rather than of metaphysics [Annas] |
| p.223 | 5962 | Plato says the soul is ordered by number [Plutarch] |
| 17c | p.3 | 24234 | I have discussed the best constitution, and the kind of citizens it requires |
| 18c | p.4 | 24235 | Female Guardians will have identical duties to the men |
| 28a | p.40 | 306 | Nothing can come to be without a cause |
| 28a | p.1234 | 20364 | The apprehensions of reason remain unchanging, but reasonless sensation shows mere becoming |
| 28b | p.40 | 307 | Something will always be well-made if the maker keeps in mind the eternal underlying pattern |
| 28d | p.41 | 308 | If the cosmos is an object of perception then it must be continually changing |
| 29a | p.41 | 309 | Clearly the world is good, so its maker must have been concerned with the eternal, not with change |
| 29b | p.17 | 24236 | Some statements about what is obvious and stable are as irrefutable as possible |
| 29e | p.42 | 310 | The creator of the cosmos had no envy, and so wanted things to be as like himself as possible |
| 30a | p.18 | 24238 | The god found chaos, and led it to superior order |
| 30a | p.18 | 24237 | The divine organiser of the world wanted it to have as little imperfection as possible |
| 30a | p.18 | 24239 | Perfect goodness always produces perfect beauty |
| 30b | p.18 | 24240 | Intelligence requires soul |
| 30c | p.19 | 24241 | Beauty must always be perfect |
| 30d | p.19 | 24242 | Is there a plurality (or even an infinity) of universes. No, because the model makes it unique |
| 31c | p.43 | 311 | The cosmos must be unique, because it resembles the creator, who is unique |
| 32c | p.21 | 24243 | The world-maker used the four elements and their properties in entirety |
| 35a | p.23 | 24244 | The soul is a complex mixture of pure mind and changing matter |
| 37d | p.25 | 24245 | The god created eternity in the sequence of the universe, and its image we call 'time' |
| 38c | p.52 | 312 | Time came into existence with the heavens, so that there will be a time when they can be dissolved |
| 39b | p.27 | 24246 | The sun was made for light, so we could learn numbers from astronomical movement |
| 39e | p.28 | 24247 | The universe has four types of living being: gods, birds, fish, and land animals |
| 42a | p.31 | 24248 | The god said human nature comes as the superior male, and inferior female |
| 47a | p.65 | 314 | Heavenly movements gave us the idea of time, and caused us to inquire about the heavens |
| 47b | p.65 | 315 | Philosophy is the supreme gift of the gods to mortals |
| 47d | p.65 | 316 | Music has harmony like the soul, and serves to reorder disharmony within us |
| 48e | p.67 | 317 | The universe is basically an intelligible and unchanging model, and a visible and changing copy of it |
| 49b | p.67 | 318 | In addition to the underlying unchanging model and a changing copy of it, there must also be a foundation of all change |
| 49c | p.41 | 24249 | The elements seem able to transmute into each other |
| 49d | p.41 | 24250 | We should not pick out 'this' water, but only 'something of this sort' |
| 51d | p.44 | 24251 | If knowledge is just true belief, we are forced to rely on the senses |
| 51e | p.44 | 24252 | Knowledge is taught, has logos, is unshakeable, and is rare |
| 51e | p.71 | 322 | Intelligence is the result of rational teaching; true opinion can result from irrational persuasion |
| 52b | p.45 | 24253 | Space is eternal and indestructible, but is only known by barely credible reasoning |
| 52c | p.45 | 24254 | Two existing entities can never strictly coincide |
| 52d | p.72 | 324 | Before the existence of the world there must have been being, space and becoming |
| 56c | p.79 | 325 | We must consider the four basic shapes as too small to see, only becoming visible in large numbers |
| 57e | p.53 | 24255 | Motion needs differing moved and mover, so it originates in diversity |
| 58a | p.53 | 24256 | The spherical universe composed of four elements squeezes out every bit of void |
| 59c | p.84 | 326 | For relaxation one can consider the world of change, instead of eternal things |
| 64d | p.62 | 24257 | Unnatural modifications are painful, and restoring normality is pleasant |
| 68e | p.96 | 327 | There are two types of cause, the necessary and the divine |
| 69e | p.69 | 24258 | The gods placed the mortal soul in the chest |
| 81e | p.84 | 24259 | Death in old age is a natural end, untroubled, and more pleasure than distress |
| 81e | p.111 | 328 | Everything that takes place naturally is pleasant |
| 86e | p.117 | 330 | No one wants to be bad, but bad men result from physical and educational failures, which they do not want or choose |
| 87b | p.118 | 331 | Bad governments prevent discussion, and discourage the study of virtue |
| 88c | p.118 | 332 | One should exercise both the mind and the body, to avoid imbalance |
| 90a | p.95 | 24260 | The best part of the soul raises us up to the heavens, to which we are naturally akin |
| 90b | p.96 | 24261 | Devotion to learning and applied intelligence leads to divine wisdom - if truth is available |
| 91d | p.123 | 334 | Only bird-brained people think astronomy is entirely a matter of evidence |
| 358BCE | The Sophist |
| 228b | p.17 | 1636 | Wickedness is an illness of the soul |
| 228d | p.18 | 1637 | A soul without understanding is ugly |
| 230a | p.20 | 1638 | Didactic education is hard work and achieves little |
| 230b | p.250 | 20478 | In discussion a person's opinions are shown to be in conflict, leading to calm self-criticism |
| 237c | p.257 | 11278 | What does 'that which is not' refer to? |
| 246b | p.39 | 1641 | Some alarming thinkers think that only things which you can touch exist |
| 247e | p.269 | 7022 | To be is to have a capacity, to act on other things, or to receive actions |
| 249b | p.40 | 24280 | Changing things and change itself are part of being, since it has life and mind |
| 249c | p.43 | 1642 | We must fight fiercely for knowledge, understanding and intelligence |
| 250d | p.45 | 1643 | If statements about non-existence are logically puzzling, so are statements about existence |
| 253d | p.46 | 24281 | We divide things into kinds by expert dialectic |
| 253d | p.276 | 16122 | Good thinkers spot forms spread through things, or included within some larger form |
| 253e | p.49 | 1644 | Dialectic should only be taught to those who already philosophise well |
| 257d | p.281 | 10422 | The not-beautiful is part of the beautiful, though opposed to it, and is just as real |
| 259e | p.57 | 1645 | The desire to split everything into its parts is unpleasant and unphilosophical |
| 259e | p.283 | 15855 | If we see everything as separate, we can then give no account of it |
| 262e | p.286 | 10784 | Whenever there's speech it has to be about something |
| 356BCE | The Statesman |
| 264e | p.289 | 16125 | To reveal a nature, divide down, and strip away what it has in common with other things |
| 269b | p.18 | 279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that |
| 273b | p.23 | 5961 | The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. |
| 284b | p.35 | 281 | The arts produce good and beautiful things by preserving the mean |
| 285b | p.328 | 16123 | Whenever you perceive a community of things, you should also hunt out differences in the group |
| 285d | p.329 | 16124 | No one wants to define 'weaving' just for the sake of weaving |
| 286a | p.37 | 282 | Non-physical beauty can only be shown clearly by speech |
| 302e | p.85 | 22559 | Democracy is the worst of good constitutions, but the best of bad constitutions [Aristotle] |
| 304c | p.58 | 283 | The question of whether or not to persuade comes before the science of persuasion |
| 354BCE | Philebus |
| 11b | p.51 | 371 | Reason, memory, truth and wisdom are far better than pleasure, for those who can attain them |
| 13b | p.54 | 373 | Pleasure is certainly very pleasant, but it doesn't follow that all pleasures are good |
| 14e | p.57 | 374 | If one object is divided into its parts, someone can then say that one are many and many is one |
| 14e | p.402 | 15845 | It seems absurd that seeing a person's limbs, the one is many, and yet the many are one |
| 15a | p.403 | 4447 | If the good is one, is it unchanged when it is in particulars, and is it then separated from itself? |
| 15d | p.403 | 15856 | A thing can become one or many, depending on how we talk about it |
| 20e | p.67 | 376 | Would you prefer a life of pleasure without reason, or one of reason without pleasure? |
| 21a | p.67 | 377 | If you lived a life of maximum pleasure, would you still be lacking anything? |
| 21c | p.68 | 378 | A life of pure pleasure with no intellect is the life of a jellyfish |
| 22b | p.69 | 379 | The good must be sufficient and perfect, and neither intellect nor pleasure are that |
| 31d | p.86 | 381 | We feel pleasure when we approach our natural state of harmony |
| 33b | p.88 | 382 | It is unlikely that the gods feel either pleasure or pain |
| 42c | p.106 | 385 | Some of the pleasures and pains we feel are false |
| 45e | p.112 | 386 | Intense pleasure and pain are not felt in a good body, but in a worthless one |
| 53b | p.124 | 387 | A small pure pleasure is much finer than a large one contaminated with pain |
| 55b | p.128 | 388 | Hedonists must say that someone in pain is bad, even if they are virtuous |
| 56d | p.446 | 9865 | Daily arithmetic counts unequal things, but pure arithmetic equalises them |
| 59b | p.135 | 389 | How can you be certain about aspects of the world if they aren't constant? |
| 62a | p.451 | 9867 | It is absurd to define a circle, but not be able to recognise a real one |
| 64d | p.454 | 14503 | If a mixture does not contain measure and proportion, it is corrupted and destroyed |
| 64e | p.145 | 390 | If goodness involves moderation and proportion, then it seems to be found in beauty |
| 64e | p.454 | 15857 | Any mixture which lacks measure and proportion doesn't even count as a mixture at all |
| 65a | p.145 | 391 | We could express the Good as beauty, proportion and truth combined |
| 67a | p.149 | 392 | Neither intellect nor pleasure are the good, because they are not perfect and self-sufficient |
| 67a | p.149 | 393 | Good first, then beauty, then reason, then knowledge, then pleasure [PG] |
| 352BCE | Letter Seven |
| 334 | p.127 | 168 | To understand morality requires a soul |
| 349BCE | The Laws |
| p.55 | 8004 | In 'The Laws', to obey the law is to be obey god [MacIntyre] |
| 631a | p.54 | 235 | Virtue is the aim of all laws |
| 631b | p.55 | 236 | Sound laws achieve the happiness of those who observe them |
| 643c | p.72 | 238 | Children's games should channel their pleasures into adult activity |
| 643e | p.73 | 239 | Education in virtue produces citizens who are active but obedient |
| 653b | p.1344 | 4331 | Education is channelling a child's feelings into the right course before it understands why |
| 653c | p.1344 | 4332 | Virtue is a concord of reason and emotion, with pleasure and pain trained to correct ends |
| 662c | p.99 | 240 | It would be strange if the gods rewarded those who experienced the most pleasure in life |
| 667a | p.106 | 241 | We ought to follow where the argument leads us |
| 667b | p.100 | 15447 | We shouldn't always follow where the argument leads! [Lewis] |
| 679b | p.122 | 242 | The best people are produced where there is no excess of wealth or poverty |
| 689b | p.136 | 243 | It is foolish to quarrel with the mind's own reasoning processes |
| 697d | p.149 | 245 | Totalitarian states destroy friendships and community spirit |
| 718e | p.179 | 248 | A serious desire for moral excellence is very rare indeed |
| 727e | p.190 | 249 | People who value beauty above virtue insult the soul by placing the body above it |
| 729c | p.193 | 250 | The best way to educate the young is not to rebuke them, but to set a good example |
| 730c | p.194 | 251 | Truth has the supreme value, for both gods and men |
| 731e | p.196 | 253 | Every crime is the result of excessive self-love |
| 732c | p.197 | 254 | Excessive laughter and tears must be avoided |
| 742e | p.212 | 256 | Virtue and great wealth are incompatible |
| 747a | p.218 | 257 | Mathematics has the widest application of any subject on the curriculum |
| 757a | p.229 | 1402 | Friendship is impossible between master and slave, even if they are made equal |
| 757d | p.230 | 259 | Justice is granting the equality which unequals deserve |
| 765e | p.241 | 260 | Control of education is the key office of state, and should go to the best citizen |
| 802a | p.289 | 262 | Men and women should qualify equally for honours on merit |
| 807c | p.297 | 263 | The only worthwhile life is one devoted to physical and moral perfection |
| 840c | p.339 | 264 | The conquest of pleasure is the noblest victory of all |
| 862b | p.371 | 265 | An action is only just if it is performed by someone with a just character and outlook |
| 863e | p.374 | 266 | Injustice is the mastery of the soul by bad feelings, even if they do not lead to harm |
| 877a | p.397 | 269 | Attempted murder is like real murder, but we should respect the luck which avoided total ruin |
| 894d | p.1551 | 21257 | Self-generating motion is clearly superior to all other kinds of motion |
| 895a | p.424 | 273 | Movement is transmitted through everything, and it must have started with self-generated motion |
| 895a | p.1551 | 21258 | The only possible beginning for the endless motions of reality is something self-generated |
| 895d | p.1552 | 21259 | To grasp a thing we need its name, its definition, and what it really is |
| 896a | p.1552 | 21260 | Soul is what is defined by 'self-generating motion' |
| 896b | p.1553 | 21261 | Self-moving soul has to be the oldest thing there is |
| 896d | p.427 | 274 | Soul must be the cause of all the opposites, such as good and evil or beauty and ugliness |
| 896e | p.1553 | 21262 | There must be at least two souls controlling the cosmos, one doing good, the other the opposite |
| 897c | p.1554 | 21263 | If all the motions of nature reflect calculations of reason, then the best kind of soul must direct it |
| 897d | p.1554 | 21264 | Mortals are incapable of being fully rational |
| 899b | p.1556 | 21265 | The heavens must be full of gods, controlling nature either externally or from within |
| 903c | p.437 | 275 | Creation is not for you; you exist for the sake of creation |
| 959a | p.512 | 276 | My individuality is my soul, which carries my body around |
| 965d | p.525 | 277 | The Guardians must aim to discover the common element in the four cardinal virtues |
| 967a | p.527 | 278 | If astronomical movements are seen as necessary instead of by divine will, this leads to atheism |