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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

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles. — Socrates

The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul. — Socrates

He is the richest who is content with the least. — Socrates

How many things I can do without! — Socrates

The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be. — Socrates

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His. — Socrates

Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers. — Socrates

The more I know, the more I know that I don't know. — Socrates

Such as thy words are such will thine affections be esteemed and such as thine affections will be thy deeds and such as thy deeds will be thy life ... — Socrates

I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead. — 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

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!' — Socrates

Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself. — Socrates

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. — Julien Benda

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses. — Socrates

The really important thing is not live, but to live well. — Socrates

I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them. — Socrates

What Socrates called the "unexamined life" that is "not worth living" now seems to be the life more people have slipped into than ever before. — Os Guinness

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said
and did not say. — Friedrich Nietzsche

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed. — Socrates

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune. — Socrates

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows. — Socrates

There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse. — Socrates

So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice? — Socrates

Man's greatest privilege is the discussion of virtue Socrates in The Apology. — Socrates

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. — Socrates

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. — Socrates

The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be. — Socrates

Life without enquiry is not worth living. — Socrates

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy? — Allan Bloom

Scio me nihil scire" - I know that I know nothing — Socrates

What a lot of things there are a man can do without. — 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

Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god. — Socrates

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it. — Socrates

It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite. — Saul Bellow

Well, then, let's not just trust the likelihood based on painting. — Socrates

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

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. — Socrates

The story goes that one day Socrates stood gazing at a stall that sold all
kinds 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

The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing. — Socrates

Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated. — Samantha Harvey

Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers. — Socrates

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift. — Socrates

I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance. — Socrates

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. — Socrates

To find the Father of all is hard. And when found, it is impossible to utter Him. — Socrates

This is ... self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know. — Socrates

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates. — Steve Jobs

Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue. — Socrates

The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause. — Bertrand Russell

I am convinced that I never wrong anyone intentionally... — Socrates

My divine sign indicates the future to me. — Socrates

Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one. — Socrates

If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

My belief is that to have no wants is divine. — Socrates

If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years. — Socrates

Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance. — 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

It has been shown that to injure anyone is never just anywhere. — Socrates

How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him. — 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

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. — 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

When Socrates said he knew nothing he still thought he knew more than anyone else. — Marty Rubin

The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible. — Socrates

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all. — Socrates

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all. — Socrates

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

Athenian men, I respect and love you,
but I shall obey the god rather than you ... — Socrates

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods. — Socrates

Happiness is unrepented pleasure. — Socrates

The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not. — 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

One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man. — Socrates

In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever. — Socrates

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world. — Socrates

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

If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all — Socrates

...[M]en are put in a sort of guard-post, from which one must not release one's self or run away... — Socrates