Courage Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“One of my favorite arguments against Jesus was how do we know He really existed? How do we know that accounts of Jesus aren’t…

— Tom Skinner

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

— Plato

Socrates had no system to teach. Throughout, his philosophy was a spiritual exercise, an invitation to a new way of life, active reflection, and…

— Pierre Hadot

Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!

— Umberto Eco

We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

“Socrates (770-399 B.C.[E.]) is possibly the most enigmatic figure in the entire history of philosophy. He never wrote a single line. Yet he is…

— Jostein Gaarder

If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum. He is in the middle of a war between those who think truth is…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

— Plutarch

Both Socrates and Jesus were outstanding teachers; both of them urged and practiced great simplicity of life; both were regarded as traitors to the…

— Jaroslav Pelikan

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens, asking these…

— Rebecca Goldstein