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
- Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
- 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.
- Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
- Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
- To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- 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.
- True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
- Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
- As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Best Quotes
- Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
- All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
- Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
- Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
- There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
- Half a truth is often a great lie.
- I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
- I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.
- Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.