Famous quotes containing the words historical and/or socrates:
“Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after the forms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“It’s easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)