12 letters found

1. 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...

2. 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...

3. 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 ...

4. 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.....

5. 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, ...

6. 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...

7. 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, ...

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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...

11. 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

12. 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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