Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Quote by Socrates
Click on the picture of Socrates quote you want to see a larger version.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Click on the picture of Socrates quote you want to see a larger version.
Socrates Quotes
- The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
- I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
- Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
- I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- 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.
- Wisdom begins in wonder.
- He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
- My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.
- 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.
- Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Best Quotes
- When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
- The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
- My business is to prevent the future.
- I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
- Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
- I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.
- If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
- Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
- I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.