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In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.


James M. Baldwin


#individual #marks #practical #self-consciousness #social

Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.


Jostein Gaarder


#life

.. 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

Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house.


Socrates


#socrates #courage

God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.


Socrates


#inspiration #poet #prophet #socrates #inspirational

Question for your life: If Socrates had a clone, would he advise that clone to know thy self, or to know myself, with myself in this case being himself?


Jarod Kintz


#clone #clones #knowledge #philosophy #socrates

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

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

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.


David Antin


#debates #entertainer #entertainment #greece #paradoxical






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