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
honesty integrity character
It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.
philosophical artist feminist-art
The only thing I know is that I know nothing
philosophical definitions term
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
worship
The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
health men long
It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half
laughter lying light
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
reading wealth-of-knowledge perpetual
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
realizing consciousness knows
The more I learn, the less I realize I know.
armor flattery shows
Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.
universe
The universe really is motion & nothing else.
funny-inspirational weight-loss world
The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.
understanding sound ethics
The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.
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?
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.