Socrates Quotes About Fear Of Death

Quotes about: Fear Of Death

• To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

  Socrates

  Death, Wise, Fear

• To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

  Socrates

  Death, Wise, Thinking

• I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

  Socrates

  Apology, Men, Yield

• To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

  Socrates

  Wise, Apology, Thinking

• For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

  Socrates

  Real, Knowing, Evil

  "Apology". 29a - b. By Plato. Translated by Benjamin Jowett,

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