Socrates Quotes

Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.

Socrates

• Light
• Darkness
• Obscurity
• Dispelled
• Augmenting

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• I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.

  

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• I have likewise made many 'skies' and effects - for I wish it could be said of me as Fuselli says of Rembrandt, 'he followed nature in her calmest abodes and could pluck a flower on every hedge - yet he was born to cast a steadfast eye on the bolder phenomena of nature'... We have had noble clouds & effects of light & dark & color.

  

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• Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.

  

  Socrates
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Obscurity