#socrate

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When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.


Moses Mendelssohn


#art #dead #father #his #inclination

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.


Jack Kevorkian


#appropriate #aristotle #death #death penalty #i

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.


Plato


#plato #socrates #death

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.


Anton Chekhov


#cook #easier #socrates #than #woman

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?


Kurt Vonnegut


#life #meaning-of-life #plato #socrates #unexamined-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

The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.


E.L. Doctorow


#separation-of-church-and-state #socialism #socrates #death

As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established her in the towns and introduced her into homes and forced her to investigate life, ethics, good and evil.


Jostein Gaarder


#philosophy #socrate #home

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

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