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
“The state will only ever be a half of itself.”
Socrates in Plato's Republic talking about women lacking rights. 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.
Attributed
“Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty.”
As reported by Charles Simmons in A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker, containing over a thousand subjects alphabetically and systematically arranged (North Wrentham, Mass. 1852), p. 103 http://books.google.de/books?id=YOAyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA103&dq=socrates. However, the original source of this statement is unknown.
Cf. Joseph Addison in The Spectator No. 574 Friday, July 30, 1714, p. 655 http://books.google.de/books?id=K1cdAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA655&dq=socrates: In short, content is equivalent to wealth, and luxury to poverty; or, to give the thought a more agreeable turn, "content is natural wealth," says Socrates: to which I shall add, "luxury is artificial poverty.".
Attributed
Plato, Phaedo
Plato, Phaedo
Diogenes Laertius
Variante: How many things I can do without!
Plato, Phaedo
Plato, Phaedo
Plato, Phaedo
26a
Plato, Apology
25b
Plato, Apology
28a
Plato, Apology
Memorabilia III.7.8
Xenophon
36c–d
Plato, Apology
36c6, as cited in Pierre Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life (1995), p. 90
Plato, Apology
Plato, Phaedo
Plato, Phaedo
Plato, Phaedo
Adapted from a passage in Schools of Hellas http://www.archive.org/stream/schoolsofhellasa008878mbp#page/n105/mode/2up, the posthumously published dissertation of Kenneth John Freeman (1907). The original passage was a paraphrase of the complaints directed against young people in ancient times. See the Quote Investigator article http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-children-in-ancient-times/.
see Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations Requested from the Congressional Research Service, Edited by Suzy Platt, 1989, number 195 http://www.bartleby.com/73/195.html. Last line: "Evidently, the quotation is spurious."
See also this Google Answers discussion http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=398104 about the topic.
Somewhat similar sentiments are in ( lines 961–985 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0241:card%3D961) of Aristophanes' The Clouds, a comedic play known for its caricature of Socrates. However, the lines are delivered by the character "Right" or "Just Discourse", not Socrates.
Misattributed
23d
Plato, Apology
Plato, Phaedo
Plato, Phaedo
Plato, Phaedo
Plato, Phaedo
“Crito, Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Pay it and do not neglect it.”
Ὦ Κρίτων […] τῷ Ἀσκληπιῷ ὀφείλομεν ἀλεκτρυόνα. ἀλλὰ ἀπόδοτε καὶ μὴ ἀμελήσητε.
Phaedo 118a
Plato, Phaedo, Last words
“Crito, Crito, we owe a cock to Aesculapius. Pay it and do not neglect it.”
Ὦ Κρίτων […] τῷ Ἀσκληπιῷ ὀφείλομεν ἀλεκτρυόνα. ἀλλὰ ἀπόδοτε καὶ μὴ ἀμελήσητε.
Phaedo 118a
Plato, Phaedo, Last words