Socrates Quotes

Socrates — Greek Philosopher

Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. He is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes... (wikipedia)

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

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.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Socrates Quotes

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