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Socrates Quotes - Page 13

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God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.

God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.

Communication, Mean, Sleep

It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.

Life, Aka, Individuality

The only thing I know is that I know nothing

Inspirational, Philosophical, Learning

The duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener.

Eye, May

Source: www.howtodrawjourney.com

If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.

Fall, Thinking, Order

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

Philosophy, Philosopher, Wonder

Quoted in PlatoTheaetetus,150c (translated by F M Cornford).

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

Change, Death, Wisdom

Charles Walters, Socrates (1994). “Socrates' - the Lost Dialogues”

...in the acquisition of this blessing human nature can find no better helper than Love. I declare that it is the duty of every man to honour Love, and I honour and practice the mysteries of Love in an especial degree myself, and recommend the same to others, and I praise the power and valour of Love to the best of my ability both now and always.

Blessing, Men, Practice

How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?

Travel, Wonder

How many things I can do without!

Life, Money, Possession

Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers

If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.

Years, World, Today's Youth

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Life, Adversity, People

And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels - temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth - she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes.

Courage, Cheer, Journey

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Motivational, Ignorance, Thinking

Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers See Milton 45

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

Eye, Heroic Deeds, Soul

No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... [It is] a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable.

Men, Healthy, Training

I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Life, Courage, Men

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.

Death, Philosophy, Soul

The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

Attention, Pay, Way

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Love, Inspiration, Inspire

I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

Inspiration, Understanding, Talent

The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

Wish, Way, Shortcuts

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Inspiration, Writing, Mean

"Apology" by Plato (sct. 21),

I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.

Sports, Wrestling, Average

I only know how little I know

Littles, Know How, Knows

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