Nice Quotes #66: Socrates

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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

Socrates


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To move the world we must move ourselves.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

The mind is everything; what you think you become.

And therefore if the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul; that is the first and essential thing. And the care of the soul, my dear youth, has to be effected by the use of certain charms, and these charms are fair words; and by them temperance is implanted in the soul, and where temperance comes and stays, there health is speedily imparted, not only to the head, but to the whole body.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

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.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.