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
beer men good-man
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
wise wisdom knowing-nothing
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
profound silence noise
Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.
understanding half answers
Understanding a question is half an answer.
friendship faithful possession
There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.
independent thinking knowing-nothing
To find yourself, think for yourself.
wrinkles years soul
The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul.
fashion teaching mean
No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.
dark age disease
The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.
want breathe insight
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
integrity hypocrisy identity
Be as you wish to seem.
warrior journey wind
When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward.. My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery.
compassion understanding firsts
The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
shining sun persons
In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine.