Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Quote by Socrates
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Socrates Quotes
- I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
- I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
- Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
- The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
- Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Best Quotes
- In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened everything in America was being questioned.
- Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
- It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
- I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.
- The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
- It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.
- Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
- We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
- I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.
- No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.