Socrates Quotes
Socrates Quotes
The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
4458Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
4730 The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
3389 The unexamined life is not worth living.
1335 If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.
3425 How many things can I do without?
1872 Know thyself.
1820 I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
1774 Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
3511 Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
1626 My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
3035 I only know that I know nothing
3860 True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
4538 The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
3664 Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
4394 The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
4472 I am likely to be wiser than he to this small, extent, that I do not think I know what I do not know
2927 To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
1365 He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
3420 Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
3986 The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
4848 God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.
3999 God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods...
3086 No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
1911 Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
4473 Two things greater than all the things are.On is love and the other is war.
4928 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.
4734 For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles.
4946 You are wrong sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong.
2175 By means of beauty, all beautiful things become beautiful.
3217 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.
3985 Let him who would move the world first move himself.
1164 Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
1553 Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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