Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Socrates, you will remember, asked all the important questions - but he never answered any of them — Dickinson Richards Copy Share Image
Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social. — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Go back to classical times, say classical Greece. Who drank the hemlock? Was it someone who was conforming, obeying the gods? Or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Socrates made the same remark to one who complained; he said: "Why do you wonder that globe-trotting does not help you, seeing… — Seneca Copy Share Image
One's character is one's habitual way of behaving. We all have patterns of behavior or habits, and often we are quite unaware… — Thomas Lickona Copy Share Image
There was a Socratic style of life (which the Cynics were to imitate), and the Socratic dialogue was an exercise which brought… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
“I believe it was Gorgias who was first to posit the impossibility of ever prooving anything - in which case, it might… — Dan Garfat-Pratt Copy Share Image
“There you have Socrates’ wisdom; [b] he himself isn’t willing to teach, but he goes around learning from others and isn’t even… — Plato Copy Share Image
Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If he tells the truth, it is because the most reeking lie no longer intoxicates him, even though he swallow it not… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history ; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“... as a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it… — Plato Copy Share Image
Both Socrates and Jesus were outstanding teachers; both of them urged and practiced great simplicity of life; both were regarded as traitors… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
“Ernest Hemingway wrote that happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing. However, if we are intelligent yet unhappy, then perhaps we… — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
“We were like children after larks, always on the point of catching the art, which was always getting away from us.… At… — Mark A. Flynn Copy Share Image
Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“The imperfect, yet very venerable, goodness of Socrates led to the easy death of the hemlock, and the perfect goodness of Christ… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But it is just as useless for a man to want first of all to decide the externals and after that the… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“So impossible it is for a man who looks no further than the present world to fix himself long in a contemplation… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“{ Stockton, a playwright who performed plays about Robert Ingersoll , gives the four moments in Ingersoll 's life that shaped him,… — Richard F. Stockton Copy Share Image
“It is the thought, not the incidentals of expression, that essentially makes an exposition unpopular. A systematic ribbon and button maker can… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“So let the reader who expects this book to be a political exposé slam its covers shut right now. If only it… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“I pity those reviewers above, and people like them, who ridicule authors like R.A. Boulay and other proponents of similar Ancient Astronaut… — Socrates Copy Share Image
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