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
warrior fighting peaceful
I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside
understanding half answers
Understanding a question is half an answer.
knowing height thyself
Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.
profound silence noise
Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.
life important principles
The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
beer men good-man
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
fear reverence extensions
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.
simple simplicity busy
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
happiness pleasure
Happiness is unrepented pleasure.
children kissing thinking
Obligation sends the children to bed on time, but love tucks the covers in around their necks and passes out kisses and hugs. Yesterday is about experience; tomorrow is about hope; today is about transitioning from one to the other. The happiest people on earth don't have the best of everything... they make the best of everything I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
fashion teaching mean
No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.
citizens world goodwill
I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.
ignorance two soul
There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.
art ignorance simple
Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.