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No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself (Socrates Quotes)
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true (Socrates Quotes)
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing, for when I don’t know what justice is, I’ll hardly know whether it is a kind of virtue or not, or whether a person who has it is happy or unhappy (Socrates Quotes)
... Either knowledge is not to be attained at all, or if at all, after death. For then, and not til then, the soul will be in herself alone and without the body (Socrates Quotes)
And now that the hour of departure is appointed to me, this is the hope with which I depart, and not I only, but every man that believes that he has his mind purified (Socrates Quotes)
You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything (Socrates Quotes)
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity (Socrates Quotes)
Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? (Socrates Quotes)
Socrates is guilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing in deities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state (Socrates Quotes)
Is what is holy holy because the gods approve it, or do they approve it because it is holy? (Socrates Quotes)
Democracy... Would, it seems, be a delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike! (Socrates Quotes)
Nobody knows, in fact, what death is, nor whether to man it is not perchance the greatest of all blessings; yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worst of evils (Socrates Quotes)
Employ your time improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily to what others have labored hard for (Socrates Quotes)
Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one (Socrates Quotes)
Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds (Socrates Quotes)
The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls (Socrates Quotes)
There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate (Socrates Quotes)
They who provide much wealth for their children, but neglect to improve them in virtue, do like those who feed their horses high, but never train them to the manage (Socrates Quotes)
The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate (Socrates Quotes)
I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience (Socrates Quotes)
He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed (Socrates Quotes)
I hold that to need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer he does approach divinity (Socrates Quotes)
Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially (Socrates Quotes)
Strepsiades: But come, by the Earth, is not Zeus, the Olympian, a god? Socrates: What Zeus? Do not trifle. There is no Zeus (Socrates Quotes)
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul (Socrates Quotes)
One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better (Socrates Quotes)
Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be contented to take their own and depart (Socrates Quotes)
Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order (Socrates Quotes)
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. and I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? (Socrates Quotes)
I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to understand the world can profit from the works of Plato and Socrates, the behaviour of the three Thomases, Aquinas, more and Jefferson - the austere analyses of Immanuel Kant and the political leadership of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt (Socrates Quotes)