Dance Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive…

— Xenophon

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of…

— Samuel Johnson

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…

— Gabriel Zaid

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

“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 was a great walker. They say he was a fiend for exercise. He was absolutely not shut away in some ivory tower somewhere.

— Bettany Hughes

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…

— Moses Mendelssohn

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 ... 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

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

“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

“time is simply an illusion, and the gifted live on,”

— Jamie Magee