Death Quote by Paxton Casmiro

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

— Francis Mont

“Socrates asked the key question: why should we be moral?”

— Arundhati Roy

“Socrates argued that only God can be a sophist, only God can be truly wise.”

— Bettany Hughes

“If you will bear in mind that Socrates, the best of the pagans, knew of no higher criterion for men, of no better guide…

— Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“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

“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

Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the…

— Plato

“But the truth is, O men of Athens, that God only is wise; and by his answer he intends to show that the wisdom…

— Plato

“In 80% of Socrates' dialogues there was no constructive outcome. He saw his role as simply pointing out what was "wrong.”

— Edward De Bono

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

— Plato