Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company an….

I am, therefore there is a God..

The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical ….

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for t….

My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths.

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that t….

Judaism was not a religion but a law..

Reader! To whatever visible church, synagogue, or mosque you may belong! See if you do not find more true religion among the host of the excommunicat….

Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it..

Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of….

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present.

We would be able neither to remember nor to reflect nor to compare nor to think, indeed, we would not even be the person who we were a moment ago, if….

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were p….

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another..

The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from ….

You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally f….

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclinatio….

We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to be a partic….

For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game..

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.