Socrates
Socrates
Socrates was a classical Greekphilosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. He is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes. Plato's dialogues are among the most comprehensive accounts of Socrates to survive from antiquity, though it is unclear the degree to which Socrates himself is "hidden behind his 'best disciple', Plato"...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
life crush way
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
laughter lying light
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
inspirational jewels names
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
inspiration mean writing
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
death wise fear
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?
men honest politician
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
deeds affection
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.
understanding sound ethics
The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.
desire want fewer
The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
funny-inspirational weight-loss world
The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.
ass should kicks
Why should I resent it when an ass kicks me?
beautiful soul reason
The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls.
philosophical definitions term
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
god goes-on dies
But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.