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
sad-relationship ends warm
The warm love has the coldest end.
travel wonder
How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?
athletics
Athletics have become professionalized.
pondering worth-living
The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living
men pleasure
How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.
apology law giving
It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.
running suicidal men
There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.
fall dust sand
Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
enquiry worth-living
Life without enquiry is not worth living.
apology blessing two
Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it is, as we are told, a change and a relocation for the soul from here to another place.
knowing knows
Wisdom is knowing when you don't know
eye soul body
Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.
men knowing world
Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.
knows known
All that we know is nothing can be known.