The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
Quote by Socrates
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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
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Socrates Quotes
- True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- 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.
- Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
- Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
- 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.
- Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Best Quotes
- All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
- Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
- Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
- As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
- Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.
- Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
- The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
- Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.