Socrates Quotes
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Obligation sends the children to bed on time, but love tucks the covers in around their necks and passes out kisses and hugs. Yesterday is about experience; tomorrow is about hope; today is about transitioning from one to the other. The happiest people on earth don't have the best of everything... they make the best of everything I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
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The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
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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 move the world we must move ourselves.
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Talk in order that I may see you.
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The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.
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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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It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.
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I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.
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To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly.
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One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.
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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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Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.
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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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Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.
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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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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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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.
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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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Athletics have become professionalized.
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Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.
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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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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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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.