Discussion Quote by Pierre Hadot

Know Thyself SOCRATES

— Gary Preiss

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

“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

“We need both Socrates and Aristotle in the search for knowledge, but in education today there is too much Aristotle and too little Socrates.”

— Gregory J.E. Rawlins

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

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

“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

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

— John Milton

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

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

— Troy DeNuthe

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

— Gil Amelio

“We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one'. We…

— A. S. Eddington