
“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
Compare doctrine of fidelity to Athenian law in Plato's Crito.
Plutarch
Of Banishment
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
Compare doctrine of fidelity to Athenian law in Plato's Crito.
Plutarch
“Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world."”
Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 63
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius
“He [Socrates] would say that the rest of the world lived to eat, while he himself ate to live.”
Socrates II: xxiv http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=D.+L.+2.5.24&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0258#note-link18. Original Greek: ἔλεγέ τε τοὺς μὲν ἄλλους ἀνθρώπους ζῆν ἵν᾽ ἐσθίοιεν: αὐτὸς δὲ ἐσθίειν ἵνα ζῴη.
Diogenes Laertius
Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter V, Gladstone And Mill, p. 56 .
1910s, The World Movement (1910)
Context: Each people can do justice to itself only if it does justice to others; but each people can do its part in the world movement for all only if it first does its duty within its own household. The good citizen must be a good citizen of his own country first before he can with advantage be a citizen of the world at large.
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part II: Ancient Greeks and Worse, Pericles
“The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates”
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
Source: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch.IV The Politician and the Playwright: How to Rule