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Socrates

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.


— Socrates


#ignorance

Know thyself.


— Socrates


#inspirational

Let him who would move the world first move himself.


— Socrates


#self-determination #self-development #change

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.


— Socrates


#desire #endeavor #gain #good #good reputation

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.


— Socrates


#philosophy #nature

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.


— Socrates


#anger

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.


— Socrates


#reading #wisdom #inspirational

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.


— Socrates


#rectitude #character

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.


— Socrates


#am #i #i am #know #man

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.


— Socrates


#life-and-death #death






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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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