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Embrace these quotes from one of the founding fathers of Western philosophy.
The last words attributed to Archimedes (paraphrased from Valerius Maximus' Memorable Doings and Sayings). During the raid of Syracuse by the Romans, Archimedes was busy drawing mathematical circles. He was eventually attacked and killed by a Roman soldier as he was too engrossed in thought to obey the soldier's orders.
Aeschines and Socrates in Raphael's The School of Athens Pietro Testa's etching of the Symposium (1648) The Apotheosis of Homer (1827) The Death of Socrates (1787) Double Herm of Socrates and Seneca (3rd century AD) The School of Athens (c. 1511) Socrates (c. 1950) Socrates, his two Wives, and Alcibiades (1660s) Symposium (Feuerbach) (1869)
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Socrates is known for proclaiming his total ignorance; he used to say that the only thing he was aware of was his ignorance, seeking to imply that the realization of one's ignorance is the first step in philosophizing. Socrates exerted a strong influence on philosophers in later antiquity and has continued to do so in the modern era.
A laconic phrase or laconism is a concise or terse statement, especially a blunt and elliptical rejoinder. [1] [2] It is named after Laconia, the region of Greece including the city of Sparta, whose ancient inhabitants had a reputation for verbal austerity and were famous for their often pithy remarks.
Portrait from Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum (1553) by Guillaume Rouillé. Xanthippe (/ z æ n ˈ θ ɪ p i /; Ancient Greek: Ξανθίππη [ksantʰíppɛː]; fl. 5th–4th century BCE) was an ancient Athenian, the wife of Socrates and mother of their three sons: Lamprocles, Sophroniscus, and Menexenus.