Socrates

How To Use Socrates In A Sentence

• SOCRATES: And is not Apollo the purifier, and the washer, and the absolver from all impurities? Cratylus
• I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler. Socrates 
• It was, of course, a poisonous plant, hemlock, that gave Athens its state poison, used for the execution of Socrates.
• SOCRATES: That was my reason for asking how we ought to speak when an arithmetician sets about numbering, or a grammarian about reading? Theaetetus
• SOCRATES: And is every kind of ophthalmia a disease? The Second Alcibiades
• He struck me as a latter-day Socrates who had missed out on his true calling in the agora of Periclean Athens by some 2,500 years.
• We all know that Socrates chose the hemlock… his real reason was that he considered exile an amputation of self.
• Hippias infers from the look of Socrates' speeches and deeds that he is an eristic sophist.
• There are many (questionless) canonized on earth, that shall never be saints in heaven; and have their names in histories and martyrologies, who, in the eyes of God, are not so perfect martyrs as was that wise heathen Socrates, that suffered on a fundamental point of religion, — the unity of God. Religio Medici
• Socratic irony had its particular meaning in the context of ancient Greece. It was just an "act" put on by Socrates which demonstrated his nature, when he spoke to people.