Socrates Quotes
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Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.
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Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.
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Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it is, as we are told, a change and a relocation for the soul from here to another place.
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Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.
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To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly.
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The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
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God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.
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To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god.
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Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?
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Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'
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Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?
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To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.
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Talk in order that I may see you.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded.
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Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.
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Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.
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Athletics have become professionalized.
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I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.
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Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.
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Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.
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You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.
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There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.
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The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave as memorials of himself works many and fair; and, instead of being the author of encomiums, he would prefer to be the theme of them.