Company Quote by Moses Mendelssohn

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

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

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

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

— Troy DeNuthe

Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Although European thinkers see the Greeks as their intellectual forebears, the Greeks themselves looked toward the East for the sources of true wisdom-to Egypt,…

— Gananath Obeyesekere

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

— Plutarch

It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.

— John Milton

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 (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

I collected men with interesting names. I already knew a Socrates. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of some big…

— Sylvia Plath