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Socrates
«The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.»
Author: Richard Rorty
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
dialogues, handsome, nobleman, noblemen, picture writing, plebeian, Socrates, topics, usual
«Socrates said, Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live»
«Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be contented to take their own and depart»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| Keywords:
contented, depart, heap, misfortunes, portion, Socrates, whence
«There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Philosophy,
Spirit
| Keywords:
Aquinas, philosophic, platonic, set out, Socrates, The Argument
«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?»
«Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.»
«There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Elderly
| Keywords:
notable, notables, Socrates