Socrates Quotes

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato

Food, Knowledge, Soul

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegie

Book, Jesus, Put

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Thomas Carlyle

Great, Jesus, Between

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
Anton Chekhov

Woman, Young, Write

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
Xenophon

Government, Among, Laws

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
Allan Bloom

After, Become, Easy

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins

Life, History, Famous

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
Walter Mosley

Father, Deep, Black

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.
Julien Benda

History, Smile, Jesus

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
Jack Kevorkian

Death, Seem, Admit

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.
David Antin

Talk, Public, Century

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
Franz Grillparzer

Life, Work, Poetry

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
Lydia M. Child

Wise, Human, Tell

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.
Harold Brodkey

Alone, Long, Moment

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.
Richard Rorty

Long, Young, Write

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.
James M. Baldwin

Thought, Two, Social

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.
Moses Mendelssohn

Art, Father, Long

Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.
Moses Mendelssohn

Men, Friendly, Him

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 compose), were performed.
Moses Mendelssohn

Care, Himself, Except

A Socrates in every classroom.
Alfred Whitney Griswold

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