Quotes About Philosophy

Conocerse a uno mismo, ese es el principio fundamental de la verdadera sabiduría Humana.

We approach truth only inasmuch as we depart from life. For what do we, who love truth, strive after in life? To free ourselves from the body, and from all the evil that is caused by the life of the body! If so, then how can we fail to be glad when death comes to us? The wise man seeks death all his life and therefore death is not terrible to him.

I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy, exhorting anyone whom I meet after my manner, and convincing him, saying: O my friend, why do you who are a citizen of the great and mighty and wise city of Athens, care so much about laying up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul, which you never regard or heed at all? Are you not ashamed of this?

And in knowing that you know nothing makes you the smartest of all.

You are wrong sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong.

Thou should eat to live; not live to eat.

I know I'm intelligent because I know that I know nothing.

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

Man's greatest privilege is the discussion of virtue" Socrates in The Apology.

wisdom begins in wonder

Life without enquiry is not worth living.

I neither know nor think that I know

a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

I'm wiser than that person. For it's likely that neither of us knows anything fine and good, but he thinks he knows something he doesn't know, whereas I, since I don't in fact know, don't think that I do either. At any rate, it seems that I'm wiser than he in just this one small way: that what I don't know, I don't think I know.

I drank what?

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Kehidupan yang tak dipikirkan adalah kehidupan yang tak pantas untuk dijalani

So I withdrew and thought to myself: 'I am wiser than this man; it is likely that neither of us knows anything worthwhile, but he thinks he knows something when he does not, whereas when I do not know, neither do I think I know; so I am likely to be wiser than he to this small extent, that I do not think I know what I do not know.

I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing

I only know, I know nothing

W]hen death comes to a man, the mortal part of him dies, but the immortal part retires at the approach of death and escapes unharmed and indestructible... [I]t is as certain as anything can be... that soul is immortal and imperishable, and that our souls will really exist in the next world.

And now we go, you to your lives, and I to death, and which of us goes to the better only God knows

I am likely to be wiser than he to this small, extent, that I do not think I know what I do not know

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