Quotes About Philosophy

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that.

Well, although I do not suppose that either of us know anything really beautiful & good, I am better off than he is- for he knows nothing & thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.

Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house.

The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

An unconsidered life is not one worth living.

I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.

As 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.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man...

Wisdom is knowing you know nothing

Do you feel no compunction, Socrates, at having followed a line of action which puts you in danger of the death penalty?' I might fairly reply to him, 'You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action--that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

It is only in death that we are truly cured of the 'sickness' of life.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better only god knows.

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.