Socrates Quotes

169 Socrates quotes by 131 unique authors

He must also know evil, hate and bigotry as real phenomena, but he must see love as the greater force. He must not doubt this… — Leo Buscaglia
PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost. — Ambrose Bierce
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. — Julien Benda
I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo sculpt David. I'd… — Robert Fulghum
The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates… — Anton Chekhov
Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose),… — Moses Mendelssohn
There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may… — Bertrand Russell
Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his… — Samuel Johnson
It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally… — Joseph Addison
All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat. — Eugene Ionesco
Socrates claimed famously that one never loses by doing the right thing. Stephen Post and his contributors claim, a little less boldly, that at least… — Holmes Rolston III
But Shakespeare never drank coffee. Nor did Julius Caesar, or Socrates. Alexander the Great conquered half the world without even a café latte to perk… — Mark Forsyth
Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we’ve chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said,… — Gabriel Zaid
The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson..... have taught man to look within himself to find God. — Ernest Holmes
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that… — Francis Quarles
It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When we say, All… — John Stuart Mill
Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I look upon all… — Michel de Montaigne
Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men. — John Milton
The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger. — Irving Kaufman
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates — Dale Carnegie
It may be that the human race is not ready for freedom. The air of liberty may be too rarefied for us to breathe... The… — Steven Pressfield
A Socrates in every classroom. — Alfred Whitney Griswold
If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth. — Socrates
Do you believe in the existence of Socrates? Alexander the Great? Julius Caesar? If historicity is established by written records in multiple copies that date… — Dinesh D'Souza
Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand as… — Reinaldo Arenas

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