653 Quotes by Socrates

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.

An unexamined life is a life of no account.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts... We must set the soul free from it; we must behold things as they are. And having thus got rid of the foolishness of the body, we shall be pure and hold converse with the pure, and shall in our own selves have complete knowledge of the Incorruptible which is, I take it, no other than the very truth.

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

What a lot of things I don't need.

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.