Quotes from Socrates

Two things greater than all the things are.On is love and the other is war.

A man who preserves his integrity no real, long-lasting harm can ever come.

He who is not content with what he has will not be content with what he would like to have.

Is something good because the gods approve of it? Or do the gods approve of it because it is good?

I]f everything that has some share of life were to die, and if after death the dead remained in that form and did not come to life again, would it not be quite inevitable that in the end everything should be dead and nothing alive?... [W]hat possible means could prevent their number from being exhausted by death?

I am convinced that I never wrong anyone intentionally...

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

Rhythm and harmony permeate the innermost element of the soul, affect it more powerfully than anything else, and bring it grace, such education makes one graceful if one is properly trained, and the opposite if one is not.

The only wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Sometimes you have to lose your mind before you come to your senses.

Now it is time that we are going, I to die and you to live; but which of us has the happier prospect is unknown to anyone but God

The only thing i know is that i know nothing.

To find the Father of all is hard. And when found, it is impossible to utter Him.

One thing that I know, is that I know nothing.

They give you the semblance of success, I give you the reality...

If I save my insight, I don't attend to weakness of eyesight.

The mind is everything; what you think you become!

W]e must not let it enter our minds that there may be no validity in argument. On the contrary we should recognize that we ourselves are still intellectual invalids; but that we must brace ourselves and do our best to become healthy... No greater misfortune could happen to anyone than that of developing a dislike for argument.

When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from absolute Beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute Beauty, and for no other reason... [I]t is by Beauty that beautiful things are beautiful.

If it were said that without such bones and sinews and all the rest of them I should not be able to do what I think is right, it would be true; but to say that it is because of them that I do what I am doing, and not through choice of what is best - although my actions are controlled by Mind - would be a very lax and inaccurate form of expression.

All I know is that I know nothing

Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons?