Socrates

//ˈsɒkɹətiːz//

"Socrates" in a Sentence (11 examples)

And soon after I procured Xenophon's Memorable Things of Socrates, in which there are many instances of the same method.

Socrates was accused of atheism because he did not believe in Zeus.

Socrates said that recognising your own ignorance is the first step towards wisdom.

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

It was Socrates who laid the foundation of logic.

If the life and death of Socrates was the life and death of a wise man, then the life and death of Jesus is the life and death of a God.

If the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a God.

Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods."

All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.

Socrates used to say, "I know that I know nothing, but many people don't know that they know nothing."

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Accordingly, even though readers always and understandably speak of the theories adumbrated by Socrates here as "Plato's theories", one ought not to speak of them so without some compunction--the writing itself, and also Plato the author, present these always in a spirit of open-ended exploration, and sometimes there are contextual clues indicating that Socrates exaggerates or goes what the argument truly justifies, and so on.

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