Quotations by Socrates

It is not from wealth that virtue arises, but from virtue that wealth and every other good come to men.

• On The highest good, their position: Virtue / moral perfectionism70%

The unexamined life is not worth living.

• On Interiority, their position: The examined life98%
• On The value of truth, their position: The primacy of truth95%

They may kill me, banish me, strip me of my rights: Anytus and Meletus can do that, but harm me they cannot.

• On Scope of action, their position: What is up to us80%

To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

• On Death, their position: Freeing ourselves from the fear50%

What I do not know, I do not think I know either.

• On Relation to certainty, their position: Skepticism75%