Quote

399 BC·Athens, Greece

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Similar Thoughts

Benjamin Franklin·1907

God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'

Aristotle·350 BC

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Marshall McLuhan·1962

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

See all

More from Socrates

-399 AD

It would be better for me that the whole world should disagree with me than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.

415 BC·Athens

He is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.

410 BC·Agora

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Locus

Athens, Greece

Tempus