Quotes of: Socrates Keyword

The debt we owe our parents can never be squared, and jolly good too, because doing so would threaten to nullify all relationship, all emotional commerce between the two generations. Being in debt, just like being in credit, means an active interest ...

Breakfast with Socrates: An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day

To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

Kurt Vonnegut

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Thomas Carlyle

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

Xenophon

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

Julien Benda

Socrates made people face their hypocrisy. He had to die.

Francis Mont

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Essential Thinkers - Socrates

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

Essential Thinkers - Socrates

The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Essential Thinkers - Socrates

Teeming brain can never never cease Hush! Hush yellow bowl of Socrates Couplet by Mk Bhutta

M.K. Bhutta

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

Marty Rubin

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

Jack Kevorkian

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

James Mark Baldwin

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Tom Stoppard

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.

Patti Smith

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

Franz Grillparzer

There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.

Stephen Fry

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

Anton Chekhov

We all know that the un-examined life is not worth living (socrates). But if all you are doing is examining, you are not living.

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