Plato quotes on philosophical

The name of the Muses and of music would seem to be derived from their making philosophical enquiries (mosthai); and Leto is called by this name, because she is such a gentle Goddess, and so willing (ethelemon) to grant our requests; or her name may

Fourthly, there is the philosophical stranger, who, like our own spectators, from time to time goes to see what is rich and rare in foreign countries
Source: Plato, Laws

EUDICUS: Why are you silent, Socrates, after the magnificent display which Hippias has been making? Why do you not either refute his words, if he seems to you to have been wrong in any point, or join with us in commending him? There is the more reason why you should speak, because we are now alone, and the audience is confined to those who may fairly claim to take part in a philosophical discussion
Source: Plato, Lesser Hippias

But I had not the pleasure which I usually feel in philosophical discourse (for philosophy was the theme of which we spoke)
Source: Plato, Phaedo The Last Hours Of Socrates

The followers of Zeus desire that their beloved should have a soul like him; and therefore they seek out some one of a philosophical and imperial nature, and when they have found him and loved him, they do all they can to confirm such a nature in him, and if they have no experience of such a disposition hitherto, they learn of any one who can teach them, and themselves follow in the same way
Source: Plato, Phaedrus

SOCRATES: Certainly, Protarchus; but are not these also distinguishable into two kinds? PROTARCHUS: What are the two kinds? SOCRATES: In the first place, arithmetic is of two kinds, one of which is popular, and the other philosophical
Source: Plato, Philebus

Son of Hipponicus, I replied, I have always admired, and do now heartily applaud and love your philosophical spirit, and I would gladly comply with your request, if I could
Source: Plato, Protagoras

STRANGER:

There are the worthy sophists too--the excellent Prodicus for example, who have descanted in prose on the virtues of Heracles and other heroes; and, what is still more extraordinary, I have met with a philosophical work in which the utility of salt has been made the theme of an eloquent discourse; and many other like things have had a like honour bestowed upon them
Source: Plato, Symposium

Musical amateurs, too, are a folk strangely out of place among philosophers, for they are the last persons in the world who would come to anything like a philosophical discussion, if they could help, while they run about at the Dionysiac festivals as if they had let out their ears to hear every chorus; whether the performance is in town or country--that makes no difference--they are there
Source: Plato, The Republic

THEODORUS: Well, but is not Theaetetus better able to follow a philosophical enquiry than a great many men who have long beards? SOCRATES: Yes, Theodorus, but not better than you; and therefore please not to imagine that I am to defend by every means in my power your departed friend; and that you are to defend nothing and nobody
Source: Plato, Theaetetus

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