Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of. — Socrates Copy Share Image
The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“You entered into a Socratic dialogue in order to change; the object of the exercise was to create a new, more authentic… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Philosophy is an odd thing... There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Pre-Socratic philosophy begins ... with the discovery of Nature; Socratic philosophy begins with the discovery of man's soul."3” — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method, ... — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
“After all, a man’s Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Mann's Death in Venice actually contains a snippet of philosophy about the second question, when Aschenbach, collapsed in the plaza, engages in… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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
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
Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel's dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the… — Donald Phillip Verene Copy Share Image
The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“The Socratic dialogue was a spiritual exercise designed to produce a profound psychological change in the participants, and because its purpose was… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
This ideal of the Socratic academy is so reasonable that it may seem foolish to quibble with it. Of course, students should… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
I have a very Socratic approach - I pummel the designers with questions, so when I get them to step back from… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
The Socratic maxim that the recognition of our ignorance is the beginning of wisdom has profound significance for our understanding of society.… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
There are two threats to reason, the opinion that one knows the truth about the most important things and the opinion that… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“Socrates would teach his pupils by asking them intelligent and probing questions. By using their critical thinking skills and problem-solving abilities, they… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“we may need to find a way of posing Socratic questions that lead to personal insight rather than simply repeating the facts… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
As I went through 'This Progress,' one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright's emptied-out spiral into… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Once in while a teacher may make a recommendation, it is usually after going through the basic Socratic method of trying to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“My father was himself a college professor and a pedant to the bone. Every exchange contained a lesson, like the pit in… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a Socratic method,… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
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