Socrates Quotes
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Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit.
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This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.
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If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.
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What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.
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One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.
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My divine sign indicates the future to me.
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If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.
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She soars on her own wings.
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When our feet hurt, we hurt all over.
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The examined life is the only life worth living.
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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.
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Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.
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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, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.
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Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds.
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I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.
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The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
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The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.
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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.
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Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.
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If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.
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Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.