Nice Quotes #70: Socrates

truth-revelation (73)in #ubernicequotes • 8 years ago

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

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truth-revelation (73) 8 years ago

Neither in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

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truth-revelation (73) 8 years ago

Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.

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truth-revelation (73) 8 years ago

The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.

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truth-revelation (73) 8 years ago

You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action--that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.

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truth-revelation (73) 8 years ago

Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise.

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truth-revelation (73) 8 years ago

Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?

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truth-revelation (73) 8 years ago

I thought that as I had failed in the contemplation of true existence, I ought to be careful that I did not lose the eye of my soul; as people may injure their bodily eye by observing and gazing on the sun during an eclipse, unless they take the precaution of looking at the image reflected in the water, or in some similar medium. ...I was afraid that my soul might be blinded altogether if I looked at things with my eyes or tried by the help of my senses to apprehend them. And I thought that I had better had recourse to ideas, and seek in them truth in existence. I dare to say that the simile is not perfect--for I am far from admitting that he who contemplates existence through the medium of ideas, sees them only "through a glass darkly," any more than he who sees them in their working and effects.