“Socrates was the greatest of the educationalists”
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A History of Freedom of Thought (1913)
Context: Socrates was the greatest of the educationalists, but unlike the others he taught gratuitously, though he was a poor man. His teachings always took the form of discussion; the discussion often ended in no positive result, but had the effect of showing that some received opinion was untenable and the truth is difficult to ascertain.
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[Civilization on Trial, Oxford University Press, 156, (1948)]

trans. Michael Chase (1995), p. 153
La Philosophie comme manière de vivre (2001)

“All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.”
Love and Death (1975)
Context: If I don't kill him he'll make war all through Europe. But murder... the most foul of all crimes. What would Socrates say? All those Greeks were homosexuals. Boy, they must have had some wild parties. I bet they all took a house together in Crete for the summer. A: Socrates is a man. B: All men are mortal. C: All men are Socrates. That means all men are homosexuals. Heh... I'm not a homosexual. Once, some cossacks whistled at me. I happen to have the kind of body that excites both persuasions. You know, some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and some men don't think about sex at all, you know... they become lawyers.
Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), p. 393.

The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (1980)
“A Socrates in every classroom.”
On his standards for the faculty of Yale University, as quoted in TIME magazine (11 June 1951).