8 Socrates Quotes on Divinity

Socrates quotes on divinity

23. Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

25. All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

55. I hold that to need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer he does approach divinity.

75. The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.

79. The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

85. To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

88. 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.

98. 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.