Thesauros Literature Philosophy Κρατύλος

Κρατύλος

Κρατύλος Plato

439–440

Cratylus
Cratylus. It cannot do so at all.
Socrates
Socrates. No, nor can it be known by anyone. For at the moment when he who seeks to know it approaches, it becomes something else and different, so that its nature and state can no longer be known; and surely there is no knowledge which knows that which is in no state.
Cratylus
Cratylus. It is as you say.

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