Delphic inscription 'Know thyself'
quoted 3 times by 3 works · not held
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Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 citation
Corresponds to the citation of the Delphic 'Know thyself' inscription, required as a citation_quote.
"Have you, then, already heard the inscription at Delphi, 'Know thyself'?
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Apologeticum Tertullian 1 citation
The Delphic inscription is cited by name as authority for the call to self-knowledge.
You, man, so great a name — if you understand yourself, learning it even from the inscription of the Pythian priestess — lord of all things that die and rise again:
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De Anima Tertullian 1 neutral 1 citation
Tertullian cites the Delphic inscription as the standard of self-knowledge Socrates admits failing.
But indeed Plato, that he might set no mark of testimony upon the senses, therefore in the Phaedrus too, in the person of Socrates, denies that he can know himself, as the Delphic inscription admonishes, and in the Theaetetus takes from himself knowing and perceiving, and in the Phaedo defers his verdict until after death, a posthumous verdict on truth, namely — and yet, not yet dead, he was philosophizing.
de anima ¶
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