Quotes About Socrates

LACHES: I think that you put the question to him very well, Socrates; and I would like him to say what is the nature of this knowledge or wisdom. NICIAS: I mean to say, Laches, that courage is the knowledge of that which inspires fear or confidence in war, or in anything. LACHES: How strangely he is talking, Socrates.

Yes; the meaning is only too clear. But, oh! my beloved Socrates, let me entreat you once more to take my advice and escape.

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.

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.

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?

SOCRATES: Will you understand my answer? Rhetoric, according to my view, is the ghost or counterfeit of a part of politics. POLUS: And noble or ignoble? SOCRATES: Ignoble, I should say, if I am compelled to answer, for I call what is bad ignoble: though I doubt whether you understand what I was saying before. GORGIAS: Indeed, Socrates, I cannot say that I understand myself.

Nietzsche criticized the high esteem accorded to consciousness, particularly the consequences of Socrates' disastrous idea that 'everything must be conscious to be good.

accept the notion of one's own mortality, and yet live fully, was a paradox worthy of Socrates.

Like forgiveness, it was not a thing once learned and then comfortably put aside but a matter of constant practice—to accept the notion of one's own mortality, and yet live fully, was a paradox worthy of Socrates.

While the hemlock was being prepared, Socrates was learning a melody on the flute. "What use will that be to you?", he was asked. "At least I will learn this melody before I die.

I will quote Cioran (who is not yet a classic but will become one): "While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning a tune on the flute. 'What good will it do you,' they asked, 'to know this tune before you die?

Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mélétè (preparation for death; Plato, Phaedo, 81a). Indeed, without death there would hardly have been any philosophizing.

As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.

Death is terrible to Cicero desirable to Cato and indifferent to Socrates.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

for always the greatest obstacle to intellectual and moral progress with Socrates is people's unwillingness to confront their own ignorance.

Did you know Socrates said we love whatever we lack? Or think we lack? Socrates? If you feel stupid, you'll fall for someone brainy. If you feel ugly, you'll flip your lid for someone who's easy on the eyes.

We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.

Wittgenstein was always interested in the nature of philosophy, and from the 1930s on he became clear that philosophy was a - a very ancient view of it, for Socrates and many ancient Greek philosophers practised it that way.

The question up for debate between Socrates and Phaedrus is whether the written word kills memory or aids it--whether it cripples the mind's power, or whether it cures it of its forgetfulness.

El hombre sólo vale por lo que sabe. Saber es poder. Los sabios educan con el ejemplo, y nada hay que conquiste al espíritu humano más profundamente que el ejemplo (...) Socrates, filósofo griego, afirmaba con el peso con el peso de la autoridad enorme: "Sólo es útil el conocimiento que nos hace mejores". Séneca, otro pensador famoso, decía incrédulo: "¿Qué importa saber qué es una línea recta, si no se sabe lo que es la rectitud?".

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.