gorgias: “either by will of fate and decision of the gods and vo
gorgias: “if it was speech which persuaded her and deceived her
rhetoric specializes in “producing a kind of gratification and p
the cautious young man in a democracy needs “to accustom himself
the greek word logos means “computation, or reckoning; a relatio
the lawgiver, will understand that “the youthful mind will be pe
the lawyer “acquires a tense and bitter shrewdness; he knows how
the sophist also seems like “a kind of juggler, an imitator of r
the sophist too is “a purger of souls, who removes opinions that
“at last i decided that all existing forms of society are wrong:
“by virtue of this power,” the power of rhetoric, “you will have
“concerning the gods, i cannot know either that they exist or th
“cross-questioning,” as plato put it, “is the greatest and most
“do the orators strike you as speaking always with a view to wha
“if on grounds of probability you suspect me because of the inte
“it is natural for us to perceive things present, at hand and be
“it seems to me that at this point some clever and wise man
“justice then consists in not transgressing the customs of the c
“protagoras was the first to say that on every issue there are t
“that by which we reveal is logos, but logos is not substances a
“the best men must cohabit with the best women in as many cases
“the just is nothing other than the interest of the stronger” (p
“the opposition’s seriousness is to be demolished by laughter, a
“the orator is always talking against time, hurried on by the cl
“the part of [an] appropriative, coercive, hunting art which hun
“the sophist is nothing else, apparently, than the money-making
“there was a time when the life of men was uncivilized and besti
“time is thought or measurement, not a real thing” (aetius relay
“to sum up, everything done at the right time is seemly and ever
“to what art must we assign the function of deciding whether in
“under its influence,” under the influence of the art of rhetori
“where max weber would define the state as that body which claim
“without a starting point it [? mind, gnome] would have disposed
“you must place great reliance on any kind of probability which