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
desire want fewer
The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
funny-inspirational weight-loss world
The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.
ass should kicks
Why should I resent it when an ass kicks me?
beautiful soul reason
The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls.
philosophical definitions term
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
god goes-on dies
But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.
honesty integrity character
It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.
thinking compassion greek
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
philosophical artist feminist-art
The only thing I know is that I know nothing
long curiosity gadflies
I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.
daughter revenge pride
An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.
inspirational men may
May the outward and inward man be at one.
want spirituality
Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.
shadow would-be said
To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.