History Quote by Jostein Gaarder

“Did you hear the story of Socrates? He was a philosopher in ancient Greece, so they killed him.”

— Troy DeNuthe

“We know so little about Socrates but somehow we still remember he existed; more amazing yet, is how the meaning of ethics has completely…

— Alejandro C. Estrada

“Socrates based his ethical values on logical reasoning, rather than theological beliefs, which ultimately led to his death. He”

— Paxton Casmiro

“Socrates made people face their hypocrisy. He had to die.”

— Francis Mont

“Socrates, the dialectical hero of the Platonic drama, reminds us of the kindred nature of the Euripidean hero who must defend his actions with…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's very important to remember that the philosophers were social dissidents. They were social critics. The man in the street or woman in the…

— Rebecca Goldstein

“for philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of…

— Plato

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

We have no proof that Socrates ever existed. We only know from witnesses to his life that he did. Like Jesus, he never wrote…

— Christopher Hitchens

“It is Plato's portrait of Socrates that has inspired thinkers in the Western world for nearly 2.500 years.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.…

— Alain de Botton