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

“An 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.”

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”

“If the soul is immortal, it demands our care not only for that part of time which we call life, but for all time; and indeed it would seem now that it will be extremely dangerous to neglect it. If death were a release from everything, it would be a boon for the wicked, because by dying they would be released not only from the body but also from their own wickedness together with the soul; but as it is, since the soul is clearly immortal, it can have no escape of security from evil except by becoming as good and wise as it possibly can. For it takes nothing with it to the next world except its education and training...”

“Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise.”

“True philosophers make of dying their profession”

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

“Comprehending and knowing better and deeper are the best guarantees we can have to attain ideas and criteria of our own; i.e. to stop depending on what other people say. In summary, to be freer to choose our own path in life.”

“Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.”

“The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.”

“I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.”

“whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived”