#socrates

.. is there not one true coin for which all things ought to exchange?- and that is wisdom; and only in exchange for this, and in company with this, is anything truly bought or sold, whether courage, temperance or justice. And is not all true virtue the companion of wisdom, no matter what fears or pleasures or other similar goods or evils may or may not attend her? But the virtue which is made up of these goods, when they are severed from wisdom and exchanged with one another, is a shadow of virtue only, nor is there any freedom or health or truth in her; but in the true exchange there is a purging away of all these things, and temperance, and justice, and courage, and wisdom herself, are a purgation of them. ↗

— Socrates

#socrates #virtue #wisdom #courage

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

— Tom Stoppard

#existentialism #socrates #death

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. ↗

— Julien Benda

#died #history #jesus #jesus christ #smile

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#conscious #difference #great #immeasurably #jesus

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#borrowed #i #ideas #jesus #like

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#life #literature #looking #looks #loudly

If I am in love, many things about the world, not just the immediate object of my love, seem lovable. To say 'I love X' is somehow really to say 'X inspires love in me', and that love then attaches itself to objects other than X as well. The expansiveness of love is a natural means of ascent between levels. ↗

— Robin Waterfield

#diotima #plato #socrates #symposium #inspirational

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#alone #always #anything #difficult #guess

Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively. ↗

— Socrates

#excellence #plato #socrates #trial #wealth

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#been #black #brainwashed #completely #deep