Cities Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established her in…

— Jostein Gaarder

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' way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the…

— Allan Bloom

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

“Before Socrates, philosophers were primarily interested in explaining the world around them and the phenomena of that world—in doing what we would now call…

— William B. Irvine

Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his…

— Moses Mendelssohn

Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock.

— Gil Amelio

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

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

— Troy DeNuthe

“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 ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man.... It is impossible to…

— Michel de Montaigne

There was a Socratic style of life (which the Cynics were to imitate), and the Socratic dialogue was an exercise which brought Socrates' interlocutor…

— Pierre Hadot