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Socrates

Read through the most famous quotes from Socrates




The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.


— Socrates


#know #knowing #nothing #only #true

The unexamined life is not worth living.


— Socrates


#living #worth #worth living

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think


— Socrates


#philosophy #teaching

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.


— Socrates


#wisdom #wonder #wisdom

To find yourself, think for yourself.


— Socrates


#self-reliance #independence

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.


— Socrates


#marriage

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.


— Socrates


#friendship

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.


— Socrates


#enlightenment #learning #lifelong-learning #mentorship #education

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.


— Socrates


#contentment #gluttony #greed #greed

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.


— Socrates


#idea






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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