Socrates (?-399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. [Українська] [Русский]
Socrates Quotes
My friend…care for your psyche…know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves
—Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
—Socrates
If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
Your mind is your predicament.
—Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
—Socrates
Would you have ever learned or discovered anything, if you had not been willing to learn from others?
—Socrates
Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
—Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
—Socrates
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
A man should enquire about that which he does not know.
—Socrates
Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.
—Socrates
If the whole world depends on today’s youth, I can’t see the world lasting another 100 years.
—Socrates
No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.
It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
—Socrates
Know thyself.
—Socrates
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
—Socrates
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
—Socrates
Every action has its pleasure and its price.
—Socrates
Understanding a question is half an answer.
—Socrates
Falling down is not a failure.
Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.
—Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
—Socrates
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
—Socrates
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
—Socrates
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
—Socrates
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
—Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
—Socrates
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
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It is fear and terror that makes all men brave, except the philosophers.
—Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
—Socrates
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
—Socrates
How many are the things I can do without!
—Socrates
It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
—Socrates