Socrates Quotes

Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

Socrates

• Happiness
• Pleasure
• Unrepented

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• I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.

  

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• One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

  

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• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

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• I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.

  

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• There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

  

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• You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

  

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• The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

  

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• Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

  

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• I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.

  

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• We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

  

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• Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

  

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• If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.

  

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• I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.

  

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• I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.

  

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• I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

  

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• No matter what our decorating style - realized or aspired to the essential spiritual grace our home should possess is the solace of comfort.

  

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• It is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many.

  

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• Had it really been so wonderful? I knew very well that at that time, too, there had been shame. And uneasiness, and humiliation, and disgust: accept, submit, force yourself. Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.

  

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• Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

  

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• ...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

  

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• Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

  

  Socrates
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure
  • Unrepented