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subject to knowledge and the other those to opinion? Do
we not remember that we said that those loved and regarded tones and
beautiful colours and the like, but they could not endure the notion of the
reality of the beautiful itself?” “We do
remember.” “Shall we then offend their ears if we call
them doxophilists1 rather than
philosophers and will they be very angry if we so speak?”
“Not if they heed my counsel,” he said, “for
to be angry with truth is not lawful.” “Then to those
who in each and every kind welcome the true being, lovers of wisdom and not
lovers of opinion2 is the name we must
give.” “By all means.”
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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