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Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates. Quotes
I am convinced that I never wrong anyone intentionally…
— Socrates, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.
If the soul is immortal, it demands our care not only for that part of time which we call life, but for all time; and indeed it would seem now that it will be extremely dangerous to neglect it. If death were a release from everything, it would be a boon for the wicked, because by dying they would be released not only from the body but also from their own wickedness together with the soul; but as it is, since the soul is clearly immortal, it can have no escape of security from evil except by becoming as good and wise as it possibly can. For it takes nothing with it to the next world except its education and training…
— Socrates, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.
…[F]rom me you shall hear the whole truth; not, I can assure you, gentlemen, in flowery language… decked out with fine words and phrases; no, what you will hear will be a straightforward speech in the first words that occur to me, confident as I am in the justice of my cause; and I do not want any of you to expect anything different.
— Socrates, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.
…[S]ome of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not.
— Socrates, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.
Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons?
— Socrates, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.
It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from absolute Beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute Beauty, and for no other reason… [I]t is by Beauty that beautiful things are beautiful.
— Socrates, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.
…[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well… [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to live honourably or rightly…
— Socrates, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.
…I do not think that it is right for a man to appeal to the jury or to get himself acquitted by doing so; he ought to inform them of the facts and convince them by argument. The jury does not sit to dispense justice as a favour, but to decide where justice lies; and the oath which they have sworn is not to show favour at their own discretion, but to return a just and lawful verdict… Therefore you must not expect me, gentlemen, to behave towards you in a way which I consider neither reputable nor moral nor consistent with my religious duty.
— Socrates, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.
…[T]hese people… are my dangerous accusers because those who hear them suppose that anyone who inquires into such matters… theories about the heavens… and everything below the earth… must be an atheist.
— Socrates, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.
…[T]hose who care about their souls and do not subordinate them to the body dissociate themselves firmly from these others and refuse to accompany them on their haphazard journey; and, believing that it is wrong to oppose philosophy with her offer of liberation and purification, they turn and follow her wherever she leads…
— Socrates, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.
…[W]hen death comes to a man, the mortal part of him dies, but the immortal part retires at the approach of death and escapes unharmed and indestructible… [I]t is as certain as anything can be… that soul is immortal and imperishable, and that our souls will really exist in the next world.
— Socrates, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.
…[M]en are put in a sort of guard-post, from which one must not release one’s self or run away…
— Socrates, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.
If it were said that without such bones and sinews and all the rest of them I should not be able to do what I think is right, it would be true; but to say that it is because of them that I do what I am doing, and not through choice of what is best – although my actions are controlled by Mind – would be a very lax and inaccurate form of expression.
— Socrates, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.
…[I]f at the time of its release the soul is tainted and impure, because it has always associated with the body and cared for it and loved it, and has been so beguiled by the body and its passions and pleasures that nothing seems real to it but those physical things which can be touched and seen and eaten and drunk and used for sexual enjoyment; and if it is accustomed to hate and fear and avoid what is invisible and hidden from our eyes, but intelligible and comprehensible by philosophy – if the soul is in this state, do you think that it will escape independent and uncontaminated?
— Socrates, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.
…[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and… human wisdom has little or no value.
— Socrates, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates.
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