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Socrates Quotes about Philosophy

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates
Inspirational, Wisdom, Philosophy

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates
Wise, Wisdom, Philosophy

Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.

Socrates
Philosophy, Philosophical, Married

An honest man is always a child.

Socrates
Children, Philosophy, Men

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth

Socrates
Philosophy, Angry, Ifs

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Socrates
Death, Philosophy, People

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

Socrates
Wisdom, Philosophy, Wish

Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body; and you can have this experience if your are negligent, because these things don't normally happen by themselves.

Socrates
Philosophy, Medicine, Psychology

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

Socrates
Philosophy, Philosopher, Wonder
Quoted in PlatoTheaetetus,150c (translated by F M Cornford).

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.

Socrates
Death, Philosophy, Soul

Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.

Socrates
Philosophy, Love You, Teaching

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