Socrates Quotes on Divinity
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Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
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All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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I hold that to need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer he does approach divinity.
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The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.
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The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.
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Upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.
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If anyone thinks that Socrates is proven to have lied about his daimon because the jury condemned him to death when he stated that a divinity revealed to him what he should and should not do, then let him take note of two things: first, that Socrates was so far advanced in age that he would have died soon, if not then; and second, that he escaped the most bitter part of life, when all men's mental powers diminish.