12 letters found
- 125 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Friday, 3 August 1877.
- in note 12:
...h is referring to the death sentence given to Socrates, to the story and the character of Odysseus an...
- in translation:
...eath by the Athenians? The very good and wise Socrates. Our life is very similar to a journey, and op...
- 368 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Friday, 27 July 1883.
- in translation:
...se few words by M. say everything I mean, ‘Socrates was born a real satyr, but through devotion, w...
- 595 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Wednesday, 11 April 1888.
- in note 8:
...antippe was the wife of the Greek philosopher Socrates; her name is synonymous with a spiteful woman ...
- 638 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 9 or Tuesday, 10 July 1888.
- in translation:
... a thousand times over if he killed his lady.... but he doesn’t do it, any more than Socrates.....
- 649 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Sunday, 29 July 1888.
- in translation:
...on, and why or how I do not know, but just as Socrates and Mohammed had a familiar genie, Rembrandt, ...
- 652 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 31 July 1888.
- in note 7:
...gh said that Roulin resembled the philosopher Socrates on more than one occasion, undoubtedly because...
- 653 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 31 July 1888.
- in note 3:
...as Joseph Roulin (F 432 / JH 1522). For the comparison of Roulin with Socrates see letter 652, n. 7.
- in translation:
A head something like that of Socrates, almost no nose, a high forehead, bald pate, small grey eyes, ...
- 654 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 3 August 1888.
- in note 8:
For the comparison of Roulin with Socrates see letter 652, n. 7.
- 655 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Sunday, 5 August 1888.
- in note 20:
...(F 433 / JH 1524). See letter 662. See letter 652, n. 7, for the comparison of Roulin with Socrates.
- 665 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 21 August 1888.
- in translation:
...an me, this series of bipeds from the baby to Socrates and from the black-haired woman with white ski...
- 738 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 19 January 1889.
- in note 7:
Van Gogh compared Roulin to Socrates a number of times; see letter 652, n. 7. The passage on Socrates...
- in translation:
... whom the Parthenon was illuminated, &c. &c. If Chatrian, whom you met, had seen that man...Socrates
- 787 To Theo van Gogh and Jo van Gogh-Bonger. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saturday, 6 July 1889.
- in note 13:
...in Plato, Phaedrus, 230c and 259b-e, in which Socrates recounts the myth of the cicadas, devoted to t...
- in translation:
...cline of things, the cicadas dear to good old Socrates have remained. And here, certainly, they’re ...
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29 September 1872 and 31 July 1890
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Socrates (469 BC-399 BC) Greek philosopher
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