Socrates Quotes about Running

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Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many

Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant

Socrates

Running, Truth, Ignorance

Socrates, Gordon Jacobs (2017). “Socrates: 100 Quotes on Life, Free Will, and Virtue”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

Socrates

Death, Running, Wickedness

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.

Socrates

Running, Suicidal, Men

The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads" "Wisdom begins in wonder.

Socrates

Running, Spiritual, Heart

[N]either in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

Socrates

Running, War, Fall