Top 10 Influencing Sayings Socrates That You Should Follow
Socrates is known to be the popular philosopher, who has influenced western civilization. They are known to be a classical Greek(Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher. Their popular student and followers include Plato and Xenophon. Socrates is very well known for their philosophy and they have written some amazing sayings which influenced people in a great way. Other sources include the contemporaneous Antisthenes, Aristippus, and Aeschines of Sphettos. Aristophanes, a playwright, is the main contemporary author to have written plays mentioning Socrates during Socrates’ lifetime, though a fragment of Ion of Chios’ Travel Journal provides important information about Socrates’ youth.
Plato’s dialogues are the most convenient proof to know about Socrates and other students also proves to be beneficial but Plato proves to be most efficient one. They have a very high influence on the older era and modern era with their philosophy and ideas, Socrates are against the democracy concept. Depictions of Socrates in art, literature and popular culture have made him one of the most widely known figures in the Western philosophical tradition.
Let’s look at some of the finest sayings Socrates that influence the people in the modern age:
“By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.”
“Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.”
“For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Is there not here conceit of knowledge, which is a disgraceful sort of ignorance? And this is the point in which, as I think, I am superior to men in general, and in which I might perhaps fancy myself wiser than other men, – that whereas I know but little of the world below, I do not suppose that I know: but I do know that injustice and disobedience to a better, whether God or man, is evil and dishonorable, and I will never fear or avoid a possible good rather than a certain evil.”
“Socrates: I’m afraid that it might actually be sacrilegious to stand idly while morality is being denigrated and not try to assist as long as one has breath in one’s body and a voice to protest with.”
― The Republic
“When Socrates said he knew nothing he still thought he knew more than anyone else.”
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“We simply find ourselves – as if trapped in a metaphysical maze – coming back century after century, though in a spiral of increasing sophistication and complexity, to the same half dozen basic answers worked out the ancient Greek philosophers.”
― The Trial of Socrates
“If I save my insight, I don’t attend to weakness of eyesight.”
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“No, Socrates! No! It’s the unemotional life that’s not worth living.”
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
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