Euthyphro Key Quotes
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- Euthyphro Key Quotes
- Euthyphro
- "In my view he is striking at the very heart of the city in trying to harm you."
- "it's laughable that you think it makes some difference whether the dead man was an outsider or a relative."
- "What is agreeable to the gods is holy, and what is not agreeable is unholy."
- "What's holy is what all the gods approve of, and that its opposite, what all the gods disapprove of, is unholy"
- "Its property of going round in circles and never staying put was not conferred on it by me"
- "This is the part of the just which is pious and holy, the one concerned with looking after the gods"
- "If one knows how to say and do things gratifying to the gods in prayer and sacrifice, this is what's holy"
- Socrates
- "I'd even be glad to tip anybody willing to listen to me."
- "I asked you for that special feature through which all holy things are holy"
- "Haven't we also said that the gods have quarrels and disputes with one another?"
- "The same things are considered just by some gods, unjust by others"
- "Something does not get approved because it's being approved, but it's being approved because it gets approved?"
- "Is all that is just holy? Or is it the case that all that's holy is just, whereas not all that's just is holy"
- "If you didn't know clearly what holiness and unholiness are there's no way you would have taken it upon yourself to prosecute your father"
- Euthyphro
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