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Socrates Quotes - Page 9

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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

Wisdom, Philosophy, Wish

The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living

Pondering, Worth Living

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.

Fear, Reverence, Extensions

False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.

Evil, Soul, Language

Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.

Enquiry, Worth Living

"The Apology of Socrates" by Plato, 399 BC.

If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.

Men, Long Ago, Should Have

Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.

Wind, Fool, Opinion

Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit.

Heart, Mind, Spirit

The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.

Honor, Demand, Greater

Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?

Numbers, Wife, Matter

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Life, Matter, Treatment

Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.

Light, Darkness, Obscurity

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Inspirational, Life, Beauty

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Philosophical, Equality, Sisterhood

The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.

Ignorance, Way, Healed

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Life, Beauty, Kindness

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

Cities, Community, Urban

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

Death, Believe, Fate

If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.

Inspirational, Depression, Believe

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death

Life, Death, Cheer

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

Life, Live Well, Wells

Crito (quoted by Plato)

Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?

Clever, Friendly, Ridiculous

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

Philosophical, Justice

The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.

Practice, Soul, Wish

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

Ignorance, Evil, Wickedness

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