Socrates Quotes
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My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves.
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The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.
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Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?
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The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.
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Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.
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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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Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.
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Wisest is he who knows he knows not.
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The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.
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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.
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To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
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Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.
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Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.
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Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.
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...one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.
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This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.
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The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.
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I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.
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I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence.
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I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.
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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.
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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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Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.
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The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.