“Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?”

“The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.”

“And if the truth of all things that are is always in our soul, then the soul must be immortal, so you should take courage and whatever you do not happen to know, that is to remember, at present, you must endeavour to discover and recollect...I cannot swear to everything I have said in this argument – but one thing I am ready to fight for in word and deed, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we do not know, than if we think we cannot discover it and have no duty to seek it.”

“Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy... Understand that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.”

“Books are immortal sons defying their sires.”

“You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument.”

“To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils”