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

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

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

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

“God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.”

“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.”

“I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.”

“If you have seen everything in life, you want to say to people, "Cut the drama and come to the point.”

“Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.”

“In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them?”

“Nature, it seems, is the popular name”