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Socrates

Read through the most famous quotes from Socrates




Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.


— Socrates


#equal #his #made #man #once

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.


— Socrates


#nobility #forgiveness

My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves" -Socrates


— Socrates


#introspection #ourselves #psyche #self-awareness #introspection

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.


— Socrates


#psychology #relationships #life

I only know that I know nothing


— Socrates


#intellect #knowledge #philosophy #wisdom #intellect

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.


— Socrates


#chiefly #good #good life #valued

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.


— Socrates


#advice #be happy #become #find #get

Such as thy words are such will thine affections be esteemed and such as thine affections will be thy deeds and such as thy deeds will be thy life ...


— Socrates


#life

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?


— Socrates


#philosophy #socrates #truth #wisdom #money

All I know is that I do no know anything


— Socrates


#life






About Socrates

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Did you know about Socrates?

Democracy was at last overthrown by a junta known as the Thirty Tyrants led by Plato's relative Critias who had been a friend of Socrates. On the one hand he drew a clear line between human ignorance and ideal knowledge; on the other Plato's Symposium (Diotima's Speech) and Republic (Allegory of the Cave) describe a method for ascending to wisdom. In 406 he was a member of the Boule and his tribe the Antiochis held the Prytany on the day the Generals of the Battle of Arginusae who abandoned the slain and the survivors of foundered ships to pursue the defeated Spartan navy were discussed.

It is Plato's Socrates that also made important and lasting contributions to the fields of epistemology and logic and the influence of his ideas and approach remains strong in providing a foundation for much western philosophy that followed. 469 BC – 399 BC) was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Through his portrayal in Plato's dialogues Socrates has become renowned for his contribution to the field of ethics and it is this Platonic Socrates who also lends his name to the concepts of Socratic irony and the Socratic method or elenchus.

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