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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. — Socrates

I hate those Socratic dialogues where everything gets drawn out at the pace of an excessively logical snail. — Jo Walton

What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad. — Mary Renault

The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it. - Socrates — Dan Millman

Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise. — Socrates

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think — Socrates

The Republic isn't as much fun as The Symposium. It's all long speeches, and nobody bursting in drunk to woo Socrates in the middle. — Jo Walton

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. — Socrates

Socrates should have written comics. — Mark Waid

Socrates said that an unexamined life is not worth living. But you know, an over-examined life can be a real crap festival, too. — Alex Bosworth

We need both Socrates and Aristotle in the search for knowledge, but in education today there is too much Aristotle and too little Socrates. — Gregory J.E. Rawlins

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Socrates asked the key question:
why should we be moral? — Arundhati Roy

Out of them all, Socrates is the hardest to deconstruct ... Indeed, he may just be indeconstructible. — Martin Cohen

All I know is that I do not know anything — Socrates

The one aim of those who practice philosophy in the proper manner is to practice for dying and death. — Socrates Trans. G.M.A. Grube

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. — Michel De Montaigne

You may not be rich with money, Socrates was not, your life still has tremendous value. — Debasish Mridha

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin. — Socrates

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied. — C.S. Lewis

I am as knowledgeable as Socrates; I know nothing. — Debasish Mridha

I only know that I know nothing — Socrates

It is extraordinary to think about. We still speak of Socratic or Platonic philosophy, but actually being Plato or Socrates is quite another matter. — Jostein Gaarder

For I am certain, O men of Athens, that if I had engaged in politics, I should have perished long ago and done no good either to you or to myself. — Plato

If Socrates was alive today he would say : I know that I know everything. That's what contemporary philosophers do. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this. — Plato

PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost. — Ambrose Bierce

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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