Socrates – Page 2 – Best Quotes

Where there is reverence there is fear but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Death

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Socrates

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Death

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Socrates

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Courage

He is a man of courage who does not run away but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Socrates

He is a man of courage who does not run away but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Author: Socrates

I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing.

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

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Not life but good life is to be chiefly valued.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not you'll become a philosopher.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you'll become happy if you get a bad one you'll become a philosopher.

The end of life is to be like God and the soul following God will be like Him.

Where there is reverence there is fear but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

He is a man of courage who does not run away but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.