Socrates (n.) is, unlike some of his predecessors, not scientific in his thinking, but he was determined to prove the universe agreeable to his ethical standards. This is treachery to truth, and the worst of philosophic sins.
Socrates (n.) is dishonest and sophistical in argument, and in his private thinking he uses intellect to prove conclusions that are to him agreeable, rather than in a disinterested search for knowledge. There is something smug and unctuous about him, which reminds one of a bad type of cleric.
Socrates (n.) is represented He is indifferent to worldly success, so devoid of fear that he remains calm and urbane and humorous to the last moment, caring more for what he believes to be the truth than for anything else whatever.
Socrates (n.) is the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal to escape, his calmness in the face of death, and his contention that the perpetrator of injustice injures himself more than his victim, all fitted in perfectly with Stoic teaching. So did his indifference to heat and cold, his plainness in matters of food and dress, and his complete independence of all bodily comforts.
Socrates (n.) is the inventor of a method that tidies up what we already half know but cannot find out a single new fact about the world; no cross-examination ever discovered anything in nature.