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

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

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

“I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are taken as such, when they are nothing of the sort.”

“The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.”

“Wisdom begins in wonder.”

“I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo.”

“Where are we headed? Are we not endlessly plunging —backwards, sideways, forwards, in all directions? Is there an up and a down anymore? Do we not wander as if through an endless nothingness? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Hasn’t it grown colder?”

“If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.”

“♫ I learned a lesson today: never judge a person by the way they act, nor how they dress, or the way they have their disabilities. Because everyone on Earth suffers the same hell, whether in love or hate, life or death.”

“If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?”

“You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.”