Sókratés Berühmte Zitate
nach Platon, Apologie des Sokrates, Erste Rede, 21d
nach Platon, Apologie des Sokrates, Dritte Rede , 33
Original griech,: "ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἤδη ὥρα ἀπιέναι, ἐμοὶ μὲν ἀποθανουμένῳ, ὑμῖν δὲ βιωσομένοις· ὁπότεροι δὲ ἡμῶν ἔρχονται ἐπὶ ἄμεινον πρᾶγμα, ἄδηλον παντὶ πλὴν ἢ τῷ θεῷ."
„Es ist besser, Unrecht zu leiden als Unrecht zu tun.“
nach Platon, Gorgias, 474b
Original griech.: "τὸ ἀδικεῖν τοῦ ἀδικεῖσθαι κάκιον"; spr. "to adikeín tu adikeístai kákion."; wörtl.: „Unrechttun ist schlechter denn Unrechtleiden.“
Sókratés Zitate und Sprüche
„Ich bin mir jedenfalls bewusst, dass ich keine Weisheit besitze, weder groß noch klein.“
nach Platon, Apologie des Sokrates, Erste Rede, 21b
Original griech.: "ἐγὼ […] δὴ οὔτε μέγα οὔτε σμικρὸν σύνοιδα ἐμαυτῷ σοφὸς ὤν·"; spr. "Egó de oute méga oute smikrón sýnoida emautó sophós ōn."
„Kriton, wir schulden dem Asklepios einen Hahn. Opfert ihm den und versäume es nicht.“
Letzte Worte, 399 v.Chr., zu Freund Kriton, nachdem er den Schierlingsbecher getrunken hatte, gemäß Platon, Phaidon 118a
Original griech.: "Ὦ Κρίτων […] τῷ Ἀσκληπιῷ ὀφείλομεν ἀλεκτρυόνα. ἀλλὰ ἀπόδοτε καὶ μὴ ἀμελήσητε."
„Macht mir kein Getümmel, O Ihr Männer von Athen.“
nach Platon, Apologie des Sokrates, Erste Rede, 18
Original griech.: "μὴ θορυβεῖτε, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι"; spr. "Mä torybeite, o andres athenaioi."
Deutsch nach Schleiermacher. http://www.zeno.org/nid/20009262458
Original griech.: "κινδυνεύει μὲν γὰρ ἡμῶν οὐδέτερος οὐδὲν καλὸν κἀγαθὸν εἰδέναι, ἀλλ᾽ οὗτος μὲν οἴεταί τι εἰδέναι οὐκ εἰδώς, ἐγὼ δέ, ὥσπερ οὖν οὐκ οἶδα, οὐδὲ οἴομαι· ἔοικα γοῦν τούτου γε σμικρῷ τινι αὐτῷ τούτῳ σοφώτερος εἶναι, ὅτι ἃ μὴ οἶδα οὐδὲ οἴομαι εἰδέναι·")
Der letzte Teilsatz wird durch Verkürzung zu dem berühmten Zitat "Ich weiß nicht zu wissen." bzw. "Ich weiß, dass ich nicht weiß." ("Οἶδα οὐκ εἰδώς."
in verschiedenen Varianten
Fälschlich zugeschrieben
Quelle: Zitatforschung von Gerald Krieghofer https://falschzitate.blogspot.com/2017/04/die-jugend-liebt-heutzutage-den-luxus.html, Eintrag vom 27. April 2017
Quelle: Quote Investigator (englisch) https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/
Sókratés: Zitate auf Englisch
Plato, Phaedo
Plato, Phaedo
31e
Plato, Apology
Plato, Phaedo
“The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.”
38a
Variant translations:
(More closely) The unexamining life is not worth living for a human being
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
An unexamined life is not worth living.
The unexamined life is not the life for man.
Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.<!--Translated by W. H. D. Rouse-->
Plato, Apology
Phaedo
Plato, Phaedo
40c–41c
Plato, Apology
Plato, Phaedo
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
No findable citation to Socrates. First appears in this form in the 1990s, such as in the Douglas Bradley article "Lighting a Flame in the Kickapoo Valley", Wisconsin Ideas, UW System, 1994. It appears to be a variant on a statement from Plutarch in On Listening to Lectures: "The correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting — no more — and then it motivates one towards originality and instills the desire for truth." Alternate translation, from the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1927 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/De_auditu*.html: "For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth." Often quoted as, "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." Variants of the quote that are correctly attributed to Plutarch but which substitute "education" for "the mind" date back at least as far as the 1960s, as seen in the 1968 book Vision and Image by James Johnson Sweeney, p. 119 http://books.google.com/books?id=d58FAAAAMAAJ&q=plutarch#search_anchor.
Variants with "education" are also sometimes misattributed to William Butler Yeats, as in the 1993 book The Harper Book of Quotations (third edition), p. 138 http://books.google.com/books?id=THl7kUfSqCUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA138#v=onepage&q&f=false. In the previously-mentioned Vision and Image, the misquote of Plutarch involving "education" (which has exactly the same wording as the quote attributed to Yeats in The Harper Book of Quotations) is immediately preceded by a different quote from Yeats ("Culture does not consist in acquiring opinions but in getting rid of them"), so it's possible this is the source of the confusion—see the snippets here http://books.google.com/books?id=d58FAAAAMAAJ&q=yeats+culture#search_anchor and here http://books.google.com/books?id=d58FAAAAMAAJ&q=%22getting+rid+of+them%22#search_anchor.
The misattribution may also be related to a statement about Plato's views made by Benjamin Jowett in the introduction to his translation of Plato's Republic (in which all the main ideas were attributed to Socrates, as in all of Plato's works), on p. cci http://books.google.com/books?id=Cg_QX4yoOSQC&pg=PR201#v=onepage&q&f=false of the third edition (1888): "Education is represented by him, not as the filling of a vessel, but as the turning the eye of the soul towards the light." Jowett seems to be loosely paraphrasing a statement Plato attributes to Socrates in a dialogue with Glaucon, in sections 518b http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0168%3Abook%3D7%3Asection%3D518b– 518c http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0168%3Abook%3D7%3Asection%3D518c of book 7 of The Republic, where Socrates says: "education is not in reality what some people proclaim it to be in their professions. What they aver is that they can put true knowledge into a soul that does not possess it, as if they were inserting vision into blind eyes … But our present argument indicates that the true analogy for this indwelling power in the soul and the instrument whereby each of us apprehends is that of an eye that could not be converted to the light from the darkness except by turning the whole body."
Further discussion of the history of this quote can be found in this entry http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/28/mind-fire/ from the "Quote Investigator" website.
Misattributed
Plato, Phaedo
21d
Plato, Apology
Yes.
Plato, Phaedo
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
Theaetetus, 155d
Plato, Theaetetus
“Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.”
Plato, Republic, 506c
Plato, Republic
Plato, Phaedo
37e–38a
Plato, Apology
Plato, Phaedo
“He [Socrates] would say that the rest of the world lived to eat, while he himself ate to live.”
Socrates II: xxiv http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=D.+L.+2.5.24&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0258#note-link18. Original Greek: ἔλεγέ τε τοὺς μὲν ἄλλους ἀνθρώπους ζῆν ἵν᾽ ἐσθίοιεν: αὐτὸς δὲ ἐσθίειν ἵνα ζῴη.
Diogenes Laertius
“If we are to use women for the same things as the men, we must also teach them the same things.”
Socrates, as quoted by Bettany Hughes: "Feminism started with the Buddha and Confucius 25 centuries ago" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11785181/Feminism-started-with-the-Buddha-and-Confucius-25-centuries-ago.html.
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