Quotes from book
Cratylus

PlatoOriginal title Κρατύλος (Greek)

Cratylus is the name of a dialogue by Plato. Most modern scholars agree that it was written mostly during Plato's so-called middle period. In the dialogue, Socrates is asked by two men, Cratylus and Hermogenes, to tell them whether names are "conventional" or "natural", that is, whether language is a system of arbitrary signs or whether words have an intrinsic relation to the things they signify.

“No man of sense can put himself and his soul under the control of names... You must consider courageously and thoroughly and not accept anything carelessly.”

Plato book Cratylus

440c–d
Cratylus

“Your silence gives consent.”

Plato book Cratylus

435b
Cratylus
Variant: I shall assume that your silence gives consent

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