Socrates Quotes
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Socrates Quotes & Sayings
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There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.
— Bertrand Russell
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How many things I can do without!
— Socrates
Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel tricks.
— Robert J. Sawyer
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.
— Julien Benda
I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, saidand did not say. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Life without enquiry is not worth living.
— Socrates
The hottest love has the coldest end.
— Socrates
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
— Socrates
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
— Socrates
There is no learning without remembering.
— Socrates
It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.
— Saul Bellow
Wisest is he who knows he knows not.
— Socrates
Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.
— Marcus Aurelius
You may not be rich with money, Socrates was not, your life still has tremendous value.
— Debasish Mridha
The story goes that one day Socrates stood gazing at a stall that sold allkinds of wares. Finally he said, What a lot of things I don't need! — Jostein Gaarder
If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.
— William Blake
Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated.
— Samantha Harvey
The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause.
— Bertrand Russell
My divine sign indicates the future to me.
— Socrates
If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.
— Socrates
Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
— James Madison
My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.
— Patti Smith
The warm love has the coldest end.
— Socrates
We all know that the un-examined life is not worth living (socrates). But if all you are doing is examining, you are not living.
— Adam Leipzig
Thou should eat to live; not live to eat.
— Socrates
I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.
— Samantha Harvey
Remember this, my boy. The two greatest men who ever livied-Jesus and Socrates-were both hoboes.
— Sam Torode
Talk in order that I may see you.
— Socrates
I only know, I know nothing
— Socrates
You won't find peace with another, until you become one person--not two.
— Shannon L. Alder
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
— Socrates
Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Wisdom is knowing how little we know.
— Socrates
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. - Socrates
— Leo Babauta
Happiness is unrepented pleasure.
— Socrates
Be true to thine own self
— Socrates
When I look around, I begin to understand what Socrates meant when he said, 'How much there is in the world I do not want.'
— Nicolas Roeg
May the inward and outward man be as one.
— Socrates
Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!
— Umberto Eco
What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it's supposed to be.
— Socrates
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