Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
SOCRATESIn all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
More Socrates Quotes
-
-
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
SOCRATES -
Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
SOCRATES -
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
SOCRATES -
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.
SOCRATES -
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
SOCRATES -
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.
SOCRATES -
The unexamined life is not worth living.
SOCRATES -
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
SOCRATES -
Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
SOCRATES -
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.
SOCRATES -
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
SOCRATES -
To be is to do.
SOCRATES -
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
SOCRATES -
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
SOCRATES -
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
SOCRATES