Philosophy Quote by Socrates — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

“Wisdom begins in wonder.”

“I only know that I know nothing”

“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.”

“Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?”

“The poet Czesław Miłosz wrote in 1953 that 'only in the middle of the twentieth century did the inhabitants of many European countries come to understand, usually by way of suffering, that complex and difficult philosophy books have a direct influence on their fate.”

“While many explorers like to endure hardship by traveling to remote inhospitable parts of the world, I prefer to explore from the comfort of my own home.”

“Every language carries a map of the soul that spoke it first.”

“Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.”

“The chief danger to our philosophy, apart from laziness and woolliness, is scholasticism, the essence of which is treating what is vague as if it were precise and trying to fit it into an exact logical category.”

“Hope is a passion for the possible.”