Socrates
- Country : Greece
- Profession :Philosopher
- DOB: 2023-11-24
Socrates (469-399 BCE) was a classical Greek philosopher credited as a founding figure of Western philosophy. Born in Athens, he left no written records, and his teachings are known through the works of his students, especially Plato. Renowned for his Socratic method of questioning to stimulate critical thinking, he challenged conventional beliefs and aimed at moral improvement. His relentless pursuit of truth and virtue led to his trial and execution by hemlock poisoning in 399 BCE, making him a martyr for intellectual freedom. Socrates’ legacy endures as a symbol of ethical inquiry and the quest for wisdom.
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
Author: SocratesAll men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Author: SocratesIf 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.
Author: SocratesTrust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.
Author: SocratesHe who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Author: SocratesBe of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Author: SocratesTo fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
Author: SocratesTo fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
Author: SocratesThe 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.
Author: SocratesIt is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit
Author: SocratesIf you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
Author: SocratesMy friend — care for your psyche — know-thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves.
Author: SocratesGet not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Author: SocratesIntelligent individuals learn from everything and everyone; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers. – Socrates77. There is no learning without remembering.
Author: SocratesI know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
Author: SocratesThe beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.
Author: SocratesThe beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.
Author: SocratesIn childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
Author: SocratesChildren nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.
Author: SocratesBefore the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.
Author: SocratesEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Author: SocratesThink not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Author: SocratesOur prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Author: SocratesThe only thing I know is that I know nothing, and I am no quite sure that i know that.
Author: SocratesTo express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
Author: SocratesDo not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.
Author: SocratesLife contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
Author: SocratesWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Author: SocratesIf a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Author: SocratesMankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
Author: SocratesOne should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him
Author: Socrates