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
ignorant wheat problem
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
drinking people cooking
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
philosophical envy neighbor
The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
war philosophical greed
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.
ignorance knowing-nothing facts
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
inspirational believe men
If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.
envy soul ulcers
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
people wish might
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
army house building
A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house
beauty men delight
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
evil soul crafts
The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
philosophy people dying
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
marriage wedding men
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent
philosophical tyranny short-lived
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.