Socrates
Socrates
Socrates was a classical Greekphilosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. He is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes. Plato's dialogues are among the most comprehensive accounts of Socrates to survive from antiquity, though it is unclear the degree to which Socrates himself is "hidden behind his 'best disciple', Plato"...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
love inspire desire
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.
life-is life-worth-living worth-living
The examined life is the only life worth living.
moving assessment impact
Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.
immortality
I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead.
fruit flattery shows
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.
talking would-be impossible
If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded.
opposites all-things
Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?
answers
There's no good answer to a question you didn't hear
hunger drink appetite
The best seasoning for food in hunger; for drink, thirst.
spring soul reincarnation
I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence.
men rose empires
Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.
death wise blessing
To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.
philosophical life-is unexamined-life
An unexamined life is a life of no account.
needs
What a lot of things I don't need.