Every quotation from Plato that a player meets in Scholar’s Dream, attached to the move that says it. Or see them as a plain list →
In Scholar’s Dream, books argue with each other, and each thing a book can do in a debate is called a move. Every quote below is spoken by one of those moves. Open “How it works in the game” under a quote to see the move, which books learn it, and which arguments it answers best.
“And do you think that they would see anything of themselves or of one another, except the shadows thrown by the fire on the wall of the cave?”
Plato, Republic 514a–515a (trans. Jowett, public domain; condensed) — prisoners who take shadows for reality, until one climbs to the light.public domain
In the gameShadows on a wall, mistaken for the world.
Learned byPlato (Lv 1)
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates at his trial, as Plato records it.
Plato, Apology 38a (trans. Jowett, public domain).public domain
In the gameQuestion after question until the seams show. Often finds the telling stroke.
Learned byPlato (Lv 1)
Moves these books can learn whose quotation comes from somebody else. The citation on each one names who actually said it.
“He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.”
Proverbs 18:17 (WEB).
In the gameChallenge the foundation of an argument before it can be pressed. Lowers the foe’s Contend.
Learned byPlato (Lv 8)
Real, sourced quotations found while researching Plato’s books for the game. They are not shown anywhere in the game itself.
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Plato, Apology 38a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1871). · trans. Benjamin Jowett
Plato against everyone else in the game.
