When Socrates and his two great disciples composed a system of rational ethics they were hardly proposing practical legislation for mankind...They were merely writing an eloquent epitaph for their country.

History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory. It might almost be said to be no science at all, if memory and faith in memory were not what science neces…

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

Even of old the Christian world, so bitterly antagonistic to any ideas not specifically contained in their creeds and dogmas, made an exception in Socrates' ca…

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being. (ho de anexetastos bios ou biotos anthropoi)

'All morality has been modelled on immorality and to this day has reinstated it at every level. The slave morality is indeed bad: it is still the master morali…