Disgrace Quote by Saul Bellow Download Open image “It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.” — Saul Bellow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disgrace Feet Humility Knows Soldier
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 Copy Share Image
“What do you take me for? That fool Socrates, who upheld the law at the cost of his own death – just to be… — Benson Bruno Copy Share Image
Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum. He is in the middle of a war between those who think truth is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“That Socrates should ever have been so treated by the Athenians!" Slave! why say "Socrates"? Speak of the thing as it is: That ever… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Man's greatest privilege is the discussion of virtue" Socrates in The Apology.” — Socrates Copy Share Image
“I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy, exhorting anyone whom I meet after my manner, and convincing him, saying: O… — Socrates Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“On Broadway it was still bright afternoon and the gassy air was almost motionless under the leaden spokes of sunlight, and sawdust footprints lay… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“But now the emphasis has shifted to making it. People have surrendered their personal moral objectives to government or schools or psychologists. It’s a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan,… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living… — Plato Copy Share Image