To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.
SocratesMay the inward and outward man be as one.
SocratesThe answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
SocratesMy advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
SocratesTags: happiness philosophy humour marriage
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
SocratesTags: philosophy
wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state
SocratesI thought that as I had failed in the contemplation of true existence, I ought to be careful that I did not lose the eye of my soul; as people may injure their bodily eye by observing and gazing on the sun during an eclipse, unless they take the precaution of looking at the image reflected in the water, or in some similar medium. ...I was afraid that my soul might be blinded altogether if I looked at things with my eyes or tried by the help of my senses to apprehend them. And I thought that I had better had recourse to ideas, and seek in them truth in existence. I dare to say that the simile is not perfect--for I am far from admitting that he who contemplates existence through the medium of ideas, sees them only "through a glass darkly," any more than he who sees them in their working and effects.
SocratesStrong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
SocratesTags: gossip
An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
SocratesAs for me, all I know is that I know nothing, for when I don't know what justice is, I'll hardly know whether it is a kind of virtue or not, or whether a person who has it is happy or unhappy.
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