SOCRATES: To speak falsely ... | Basic T-Shirt

“To speak falsely is not an evil in itself; but in doing to, evil intrudes on your soul.”

Socrates never wrote a word, but he shook Athens to its core by asking questions no one wanted to answer. He wandered the streets, buttonholing citizens, forcing them to unravel their own contradictions. His “Socratic method” wasn’t about finding truth—it was about never letting anyone, including himself, get too comfortable with certainty.

For that, Athens condemned him to death in 399 BCE, charging him with “corrupting the youth” and disrespecting the gods. Offered the chance to escape, he refused, drinking hemlock instead. His last lesson was simple and devastating: living unexamined is worse than dying. Socrates became philosophy’s first martyr, turning relentless questioning into a way of life. He reminds us that real thinking is dangerous, that authority hates doubt, and that sometimes the most radical act is simply asking, “Why?”

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