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

“True philosophers make of dying their profession”

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

“Be as you wish to seem.”

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

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

“An unexamined life is not worth living.”

“Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures.”

“When we take hard problems to heart, we seek solutions to every problem.”

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

“I prefer for 'my world' to have the highest certification of being a faithful representation of the exterior world.”

“Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.”