For practical purposes, experience seems no worse than craft; indeed we even see that experienced people are actually more successful than those who have a rational account but lack experience. The reason is that experi-15 ence is cognition of particulars, whereas craft is cognition of universals.

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They are not aware of the way true philosophers are nearly dead,nor of the way they deserve to be, nor of the sort of death they deserve.

Perhaps then, put in this way, it is not unreasonable that one should notkill oneself before a god had indicated some necessity to do so, like thenecessity now put upon us.

Tell him the truth, Cebes, he said, that I did not do this with the idea ofrivaling him or his poems, for I knew that would not be easy, but I tried tofind out the meaning of certain dreams and to satisfy my conscience inecase it was this kind of art they were frequently bidding me to practice

ut, in the name of Zeus, Euthyphro, do you think you havesuch exact knowledge about the positions the gods take, and about thepious and the impious, that in the face of these events, you’ve no fear ofacting impiously yourself in bringing your father to trial?

Why, they even mock me as if Iwere crazy, when I speak in the Assembly on religious matters and predictthe future for them

ecessity or becauseshe was taken by force, persuaded by words (logoi), or conquered byLove....

Each day you will make constant progresstoward being better

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The worlds come to be when the atoms fall into thevoid and are entangled with one another.

oid).

What-is must be whole, complete, unchanging, and one. It canneither come to be nor pass away, nor undergo any qualitative change. Onlywhat is in this way can be grasped by thought and genuinely known.

But come now, I will tell you—and you, when youhave heard the story, bring it safely away—which are the only routes of inquiry that are for thinking:the one, that is and that it is not possible for it not to be,is the path of Persuasion (for it attends upon Truth),the other, that it is not and that it is right that it not be,5this indeed I declare to you to be a path entirely unable tobe investigated:For neither can you know what is not (for it is not to beaccomplished)nor can you declare it.

Much learning [“polymathy”] does not teach insight. Otherwiseit would have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras and moreover Xenoph-anes and Hecataeus.

274. XENOPHANES OF COLOPHON14.(B24) . . . whole [he] sees, whole [he] thinks, and whole [he] hears.

254. XENOPHANES OF COLOPHONhome without assistance (unless you are very aged).Praise the man who after drinking behaves noblyin that he possesses memory and aims for excellence (

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(12A23) Anaximander says that these [thunder, lightning, thunder-bolts, waterspouts, and hurricanes] all result from wind. For when-ever it [wind] is enclosed in a thick cloud and forcibly escapes becauseit is so fine and light, then the bursting [of the cloud] creates the noiseand the splitting creates the flash against the blackness of the cloud

It stays atrest because its distance from all things is equal.

Both air and earthare originally moist, but become drier because of the fire. I

12THE PRESOCRATICS AND THE SOPHISTSkind of cause or we will be more confident about the ones now beingdiscussed. (Aristotle, Metaphysics 1.3 983a26–b6; not in DK)5.(11A12) Of those who first pursued philosophy, the majority believedthat the only principles of all things are principles in the form ofmatter. For that of which all existing things are composed and thatfrom which they originally come to be and that into which they finally

hales also saidthat the earth rests or floats on water.

They are one and the same state.

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