Socrates Philosophical Quotations

An unexamined life is a life of no account.

I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.