Quotes About Philosophy

And now, Athenians, I am not going to argue for my own sake, as you may think, but for yours, that you may not sin against the God by condemning me, who am his gift to you.

The Philebus appears to be one of the later writings of Plato

I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.

O que digo é que é pela beleza em si que as coisas belas são belas.

Lo que no es ni malo ni bueno es, pues, amigo de lo bueno por [b] causa de lo malo y de lo odioso, y con vistas a un bien amigo.

Always seek wisdom and live a virtuous life.

And is not shrewdness a quickness or cleverness of the soul, and not a quietness?

For I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but first and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.

From this tale, Callicles, which I have heard and believe, I draw the following inferences:—Death, if I am right, is in the first place the separation from one another of two things, soul and body; nothing else.

Estrangeiro - Ora, errar nada mais é do que se desviar do seu caminho a alma, quando intenta alcançar a verdade, sem passar ao lado dela o entendimento.

Nothing will injure me, not Meletus nor yet Anytus—they cannot, for a bad man is not permitted to injure a better than himself.

it seemed to me that this man seemed to be wise, both to many other human beings and most of all to himself, but that he was not. And then I tried to show him that he supposed he was wise, but was not. So from this I became hateful both to him and to many of those present Plato,Apology

While I, just as I do not know, do not even suppose that I do. I am likely to be a little bit wiser than he in this very thing: that whatever I do not know, I do not even suppose I know.

The union of body and soul,you see,can never be superior to their separation.

All these were lovers and emulators and disciples of the culture of the Lacedaemonians, and any one may perceive that their wisdom was of this character; consisting of short memorable sentences, which they severally uttered. And they met together and dedicated in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, as the first-fruits of their wisdom, the far-famed inscriptions, which are in all men's mouths—'Know thyself,' and 'Nothing too much.

SOCRATES: What events? POLUS: You see, I presume, that Archelaus the son of Perdiccas is now the ruler of Macedonia? SOCRATES: At any rate I hear that he is. POLUS: And do you think that he is happy or miserable? SOCRATES: I cannot say, Polus, for I have never had any acquaintance with him.

I should not be surprised that Euripides' lines are true when he says: 'But who knows whether being alive is being dead And being dead is being alive?

I think it's too much to call to call him wise, Phaedrus: only the gods deserve that label. But it would suit him better and be more appropriate to call him a lover of wisdom, or something like that.

But now it is time for us to leave: for me, to go to my death, and for you to go on living. Whether it's you or I who are going to a better thing is clear to no one but the god.

There are two things which should be cultivated in the soul: first, the greatest courage; secondly, the greatest fear.

Of old the saying, "Nothing too much," appeared to be, and really was, well said. For he whose happiness rests with himself, if possible, wholly, and if not, as far as is possible,—who is not hanging in suspense on other men, or changing with the vicissitude of their fortune,—has his life ordered for the best.

Manusia tidak mencapai kebenaran dalam semua aspeknya, dan tidak akan terjatuh ke dalam kesalahan dalam semua aspeknya.

LACHES: True. SOCRATES: And now on the contrary we are saying that the foolish endurance, which was before held in dishonour, is courage. LACHES: Very true. SOCRATES: And are we right in saying so? LACHES: Indeed, Socrates, I am sure that we are not right.

Even the fragments of his words when 'repeated at second-hand' (Symp.) have in all ages ravished the hearts of men, who have seen reflected in them their own higher nature. He is the father of idealism in philosophy, in politics, in literature. And many of the latest conceptions of modern thinkers and statesmen, such as the unity of knowledge, the reign of law, and the equality of the sexes, have been anticipated in a dream by him.