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
apology convinced
Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.
music soul grace
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.
realizing consciousness knows
The more I learn, the less I realize I know.
worship
The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
regret interesting cases
Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it
know-thyself knows thyself
To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.
life crush way
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
laughter lying light
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
inspirational jewels names
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
inspiration mean writing
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.
death wise fear
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?
men honest politician
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
deeds affection
Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds.
understanding sound ethics
The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.