The Greek philosopher and logician (one who studies logic or reason) Socrates was an important influence
on Plato (427-347 B.C.E. ) and had a major effect on ancient philosophy.
Socrates was famous for his method of argumentation and his works often made as many enemies as admirers within Athens.
Cicero said that "Socrates brought down philosophy from the heavens to the earth."
Socrates appears to have lived the humblest life. He bought the cheapest food and drink, had no shirt or shoes, and
wore the same cloak summer and winter. But this gave him independence to do as he wished, and what he wished was to
help himself and others come to greater knowledge and peace of mind.
(469 B.C.E. - c. 399 B.C.E.)
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.
~ Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
~ Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
~ Socrates
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
~ Socrates
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
~ Socrates
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
~ Socrates
Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.
~ Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
~ Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
~ Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
~ Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
~ Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
~ Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
~ Socrates
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
~ Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
~ Socrates
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.
~ Socrates
Death is one of two things. Either it is annihilation, and the dead have
no consciousness of anything; or, as we are told, it is really a change: a migration of the soul from one place to another.
~ Socrates
No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest
blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.
~ Socrates
Akhenaton (or Akhenaten) was the tenth pharaoh of Egypt's
eighteenth dynasty (c.1352-1336 BCE).
Son of Amenhotep III and the chief queen, Tiya, Akhenaton
succeeded to the throne as Amenhotep IV and took a throne
name meaning "the sun's ultimate perfection, unique one
of the sun." He created a new capital at Amarna.
He is often referred to as the "heretic pharaoh," due
to his abandonment of all of the traditional Egyptian gods
except for Aten, the god associated with the disc of the
sun who had been growing in importance and popularity for at
least a couple of generations prior to the reign of Akhenaten.
It was in honour of this god that the pharaoh changed his name.
(1352-1336 BCE)
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
~ Buddha
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
~ Confucius
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
~ Voltaire
