Socrates Quotes

“The great radical politician Aneurin Bevan once said to me, “Never use irony in politics. Whenever I have done so it has got me into trouble. A lot of your hearers always take you literally.” He added, “It makes no difference how heavy your irony is, and how obvious it is to you. It is not obvious to them.”
― Paul Johnson, Socrates: A Man for Our Times

“Despite all the efforts of doctors and scientists, psychologists, poets, painters, musicians, and other imaginative creators of genius, death remains as great a mystery to us now as it did to Socrates’ contemporaries 2,500 years ago. In knowledge of death we have not advanced one centimeter in all that time.”
― Paul Johnson, Socrates: A Man for Our Times