Socrates Quotes
Type:
Philosopher Quotes
Category:
Greek Philosopher Quotes
Year of Birth:
469 BC
Year of Death:
399 BC
Nationality:
Greek
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Socrates
A system of morality which is based on
relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Socrates
All men's souls are immortal, but the
souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know
nothing.
Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship; but
when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Socrates
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
Socrates
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Socrates
By all means marry. If you get a good
wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher and
that is a good thing for any man.
Socrates
By all means, marry. If you get a good
wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human
blessings.
Socrates
Employ your time in improving yourself
by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored
hard for.
Socrates
False words are not only evil in
themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the
deadliest hate.
Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run
away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Socrates
He is richest who is content with the
least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know
one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates
I decided that it was not wisdom that
enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration,
such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages
without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my
ignorance.
Socrates
I know that I am intelligent, because I
know that I know nothing.
Socrates
I only wish that ordinary people had an
unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for
doing good.
Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a
politician and live.
Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth, he
should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Socrates
If all misfortunes were laid in one
common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be
contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates
It is not living that matters, but
living rightly.
Socrates
Let him that would move the world first
move himself.
Socrates
My advice to you is get married: if you
find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates
Not life, but good life, is to be
chiefly valued.
Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes
his superior.
Socrates
One who is injured ought not to return
the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not
right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have
suffered from him.
Socrates
Ordinary people seem not to realize that
those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly
and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in
general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Socrates
The end of life is to be like God, and
the soul following God will be like Him.
Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in
this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you
know nothing.
Socrates
The poets are only the interpreters of
the Gods.
Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to
endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that
you know nothing.
Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we
realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around
us.
Socrates
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is a habit.
Socrates
Where there is reverence there is fear,
but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear
presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and
drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Socrates
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