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
death wise men
The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
death philosophy soul
The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.
truth littles accounts
If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth.
inspiration oracles poet
Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.
evil world may
One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.
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.