I know what I do not know. Socrates More Quotes by Socrates More Quotes From Socrates We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime. Socrates wisdomheartknowledge Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service. Socrates greeddesirewar There is but one evil, ignorance. Socrates ignoranceevilreligion Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. Socrates philosophydeathpeople I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes. Socrates caremistakepeople To harm another is to harm oneself Socrates oneselfharm An unexamined life is a life of no account. Socrates unexamined-lifephilosophicallife-is True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge. Socrates limitsgoallying See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all. Socrates philosophicalnaturesea To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity. Socrates doemenneeds Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence. Socrates reverenceextensionsfear I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say. Socrates talentunderstandinginspiration When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love. Socrates inspirationloveinspire The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him. Socrates wisemendeath Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of. Socrates jewelsnamesadvice Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. Socrates philosophicalgreedwar She soars on her own wings. Socrates scrapbookingwingsinspirational There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate. Socrates embracetemperancedifferences If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself. Socrates long-agoshould-havemen Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one. Socrates soulgivingmen
