Quotes from Socrates

The examined life is the only life worth living.

Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Una vida aceptada sin reflexión no merece la pena vivirla.

Sólo sé que no sé nada.

La vista del entendimiento, ten por cierto, empieza a ver adecuadamente cuando la de los ojos comienza a perder su fuerza.

Y si el oráculo ha nombrado a Sócrates, sin duda se ha valido de mí nombre como un ejemplo, y como si dijese a todos los hombres: «El más sabio entre vosotros es aquel que reconoce, como Sócrates, que su sabiduría no es nada».

No es cierto, en general, respecto a todo lo que el alma está dispuesta a hacer y soportar, que cuando preside la sabiduría, todo conduce a su bien; así como todo a su desgracia, si aquella falta?

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

The 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.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

An honest man is always a child.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.

I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.

How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?

The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.

Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.