Socrate, The greek philosopher

Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher and is credited as the founder of western logic philosophy. It is through his most famous student, Plato that we are able to view the life of this great mind.

was born around 470 BC, in Athens, Greece. Although we know little about his life except for the information recorded by his students, including Plato, what we do know makes it clear that he had a unique and powerful philosophy and personality.

Socrates is famous for his work on logic, epistemology and a fascination with the human mind over the physical body. His belief was that philosophy should achieve practical results for the greater wellbeing of society.
Socrates believed that philosophy would achieve bring about results for the greater well-being of society. He believed that human choice was motivated by the desire for happiness,  ultimate wisdom comes from knowing oneself and the more a person knows, the greater his or her ability to reason and make choices that will bring true happiness.

These are a collection of inspiring quotes from the philosopher and the man with a truly great mind: SOCRATE.

_“The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.”

_“The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

_“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”

_“Let him that would move the world first move himself.”

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

_“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

_“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”

_“When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you desired that breath of air, then you shall have it.”

_“Strong minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Weak minds discuss people.”


_“If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.”

_“It would be better for me; that multitudes of men should disagree with me, rather than I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.”

_“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher; and philosophy begins in wonder.”

_“I am wise because I know I know nothing.”

_“I care to have the greatest improvement of my soul.”

_“I converse with all who pay and don't pay; let anyone whether he be rich or poor ask and answer me, and listen to my words.”

_“Life without inquiry is not worth living for a human.”

_“I would rather die having spoken in my manner; than speak in your manner and live.”

_“Others live that they may eat and drink; I eat and drink so I may live.”

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

_“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”

_“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”

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