Plato, Philebus, section 61d

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[61d]

Socrates
Before we make the mixture, tell me: should we be most likely to succeed by mixing all pleasure with all wisdom?

Protarchus
Perhaps.

Socrates
But that is not safe; and I think I can offer a plan by which we can make our mixture with less risk.

Protarchus
What is it?

Socrates
We found, I believe, that one pleasure was greater than another and one art more exact than another?

Protarchus
Certainly.

Socrates
And knowledge was of two kinds, one turning its eyes towards transitory things,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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