Quotes About Philosophy

we become what we contemplate.

Entonces Fedro tomó la palabra y dijo: —Mi querido Agatón, si continúas respondiendo a Sócrates, no se cuidará de lo demás, porque él, teniendo con quien conversar, ya está contento, sobre todo si su interlocutor es hermoso.

The good soul, by her own excellence, improves the body as far as this may be possible.

if it be shown that absolute unity is also many and the absolute many again are one, then I shall be amazed.

SOCRATES: First, then, let us consider whether the doing of injustice exceeds the suffering in the consequent pain: Do the injurers suffer more than the injured? POLUS: No, Socrates; certainly not.

?ežnja za filozofijom je iskra u duši koja se, kada se jednom zapali, održava i više ne gasi.

SOCRATES: Say rather, with the wisest of all living men, if you are willing to accord that title to Protagoras. COMPANION: What! Is Protagoras in Athens? SOCRATES: Yes; he has been here two days. COMPANION: And do you just come from an interview with him? SOCRATES: Yes; and I have heard and said many things.

A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.

Costoro sanno che la filosofia, accorgendosi del potere di questa prigione, terribile perché opera attraverso i desideri (e per questo chi è prigioniero è complice della sua stessa prigionia), quelli che amano il sapere sanno che la filosofia, prendendo la loro anima in queste condizioni, dolcemente la esorta e cerca di liberarla.

I think that you or anyone else who claims that there is an absolute idea of each thing would agree in the first place that none of them exists in us. No, for if it did, it would no longer be absolute.

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

Then not he who does evil, but he who does good, is temperate? Yes, he said; and you, friend, would agree. No matter whether I should or not; just now, not what I think, but what you are saying, is the point at issue. Well, he answered; I mean to say, that he who does evil, and not good, is not temperate; and that he is temperate who does good, and not evil: for temperance I define in plain words to be the doing of good actions.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

I am on the brink of death, while you will carry on living. The judgment of which is truly better rests only within the knowledge of God.

SOCRATES: Then hear me, Gorgias, for I am quite sure that if there ever was a man who entered on the discussion of a matter from a pure love of knowing the truth, I am such a one, and I should say the same of you. GORGIAS: What is coming, Socrates?

Wherefore, O judges, be of good cheer about death, and know of a certainty, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Now, if the truth of things is always in our soul, the soul is immortal.

Death may even be the greatest of all good things for a human being - no one knows, yet people fear it as if they knew for sure that it's the greatest of bad things.

Bir insan tanr?lar?n varl???na hiç inanmasa da, eÄŸer ayn? zamanda dürüst bir mizac? varsa, böyle kiÅŸiler insanlardaki kötülükten nefret eder; yanl??l?klara kar?? olan nefretleri, onlar? yanl?? iÅŸler yapmaktan uzaklaÅŸt?r?r; haks?zl?ktan kaç?n?rlar ve namuslu yaÅŸarlar

Ogni problema ha tre soluzioni: la mia soluzione, la tua soluzione, e la soluzione giusta.

Chi è serio, si guarda bene dallo scrivere di cose serie.

Those incapable of thinking gravely read gravity into frivolties which correspond to their own frivolous nature.

What, then, is the achieved Sage? One whose Act is determined by the higher phase of the Soul.

To set oneself above intellect is immediately to fall outside it.