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
want mass ifs
If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.
want belief divine
My belief is that to have no wants is divine.
evil want ifs
If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil
horse want saddles
If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
air secret want
When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.
desire want fewer
The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
want spirituality
Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.
simple simplicity want
How many things are there which I do not want.
want weeping
Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.
want breathe insight
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
want what-you-want ifs
If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all
thinking people want
Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.
appear experience honor human increase practice reality shortest strengthen surest themselves virtues
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.
ashamed care caring fame improvement money neither nor truth wisdom
Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?