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- Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it… — Allan Bloom
- The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. — Thomas Carlyle
- The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from… — Dale Carnegie
- It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook. — Anton Chekhov
- Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always… — Lydia M. Child
- After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference… — Joseph Parker
- If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour. — William Blake
- Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all. — Michel de Montaigne
- The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on… — Walter Lippmann
- The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned… — Norman Cousins
- Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau