The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
SocratesIf I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.
SocratesIn order that the mind should see light instead of darkness, so the entire soul must be turned away from this changing world, until its eye can learn to contemplate reality and that supreme splendor which we have called the good. Hence there may well be an art whose aim would be to effect this very thing.
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