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Socrates Philosophical Quotes By Socrates

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed. — Socrates

Socrates Philosophical Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason ... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him ... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Socrates Philosophical Quotes By Socrates

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms. — Socrates

Socrates Philosophical Quotes By Lord Byron

Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages. — Lord Byron

Socrates Philosophical Quotes By Socrates

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. — Socrates

Socrates Philosophical Quotes By Socrates

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

Socrates Philosophical Quotes By Jostein Gaarder

Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to 'give birth' to correct insight, since real understanding must come from within ... Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason. — Jostein Gaarder

Socrates Philosophical Quotes By Rebecca Goldstein

Quite often we are led to aporia, an impasse, unable to proceed a step further. Socrates is almost always there, but even he is only a supporting character. The starring role is given to the philosophical question. It is the philosophical question that is supposed to take center stage, cracking us open to an entirely new variety of experience. — Rebecca Goldstein

Socrates Philosophical Quotes By Rebecca Goldstein

So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens, asking these peculiar questions of everybody - important people, young men, slaves - questions that had to do with ultimately what's the life that's worth living. And Plato was one of the young men who hung around him, a very aristocratic young man, came from a very old, important family. — Rebecca Goldstein

Socrates Philosophical Quotes By Samantha Harvey

Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character? — Samantha Harvey

Socrates Philosophical Quotes By Socrates

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me. — Socrates

Socrates Philosophical Quotes By Socrates

An unexamined life is a life of no account. — Socrates

Socrates Philosophical Quotes By Abhijit Naskar

Plato, Socrates, Aristotle and many more great minds laid the groundwork for the development of modern science. Over the foundation of philosophy, history witnessed the daring ventures of human excellence by both philosophical and scientific geniuses, such as Leonardo-da-Vinci, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Bacon, Darwin, Newton and so on. And the chain of reaction they triggered with their extraordinarily abnormal thinking, given their surrounding ignorance and fundamentalism, resulted into the evolution of our modern science. — Abhijit Naskar

Socrates Philosophical Quotes By Socrates

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor. — Socrates

Socrates Philosophical Quotes By C.S. Lewis

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

Socrates Philosophical Quotes By Socrates

Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself. — Socrates

Socrates Philosophical Quotes By Socrates

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

Socrates Philosophical Quotes By Emile M. Cioran

Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates. — Emile M. Cioran

Socrates Philosophical Quotes By Plato

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless — Plato