Top Socrates Quotes

For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to t...

Winning or losing achieves the same result--change.

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

You won't find peace with another, until you become one person--not two.

Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it,...

Teeming brain can never never ceaseHush! Hush yellow bowl of SocratesCouplet by Mk Bhutta

As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.

[On Socrates] My decision to prove reincarnation to the sophomoric cavemen of Athens, quite possibly, was the best decision I made for both myself and humanity. Another dominant behavioral trait is di...

I am as knowledgeable as Socrates I know nothing.

When Socrates said he knew nothing he still thought he knew more than anyone else.

Angels come in many forms, but they always bring the same message--wisdom.

.. is there not one true coin for which all things ought to exchange?- and that is wisdom; and only in exchange for this, and in company with this, is anything truly bought or sold, whether courage, t...

Socrates: (...)They should not pit themselves against the will of the Gods in thought or deed. Here lies the true path of virtue and happiness. The other way is arrogance, pride and hubris. It ends in...

The unexamined life is not worth living.

I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I...

Socrates should have written comics.

Reason and

There is nothing more notable in than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if in life he has abandoned bodily pleasures and adornments, as foreign to his purpose and likely to do...

God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter t...