“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Life
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
LifeAll Quotes by Socrates
“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.”
Good“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”
Beauty“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
Intelligence“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
Wisdom“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
Life“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”
Knowledge“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
Great“The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.”
God“To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.”
Knowledge“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”
Poetry“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
Nature“Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.”
Beauty“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.”
Good“He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.”
Courage“As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.”
Marriage“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
Death“Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.”
Fear“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.”
Best“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”
Men