13 Socrates Quotes for You to Enjoy

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. Plato

Food Knowledge Soul Surely Said Socrates

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies. Walter Mosley

Problem World Father Black Would Solver He Spoiling Ready-Made Were Been Brainwashed Then Asking View Deep Why Thinker Socrates

My hero Socrates trained Plato on a rock. How much did that cost? So the greatest minds in history became the greatest minds in history without spending a lot of money. Dave Brat

History Money Hero Minds Spending Cost Became Without Greatest Rock How How Much Lot Trained Did Much Plato Socrates

'Matisse and Picasso' is a little like Plato after Socrates. Socrates only taught in words. He didn't write. And after that, you had Plato and Aristotle to write about what he had said. I write about them because they didn't write about them. Francoise Gilot

You Words About Only Write Picasso Had He Aristotle Like Because Said Taught After Little Them Plato Socrates

In that prehistoric time, before the Internet, before information floated in the ozone, I was a soccer novice who had never heard of Socrates until somebody pointed him out - swarthy, shaggy, tall, slender, mysterious. George Vecsey

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social. James Mark Baldwin

Thought Marks Individual Self-Consciousness Practical Social Appear Socrates Two

Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end. John Ortberg

Life Day Great Will Alexander Immense Outlast Someone Caesar Failed Clearly Napoleon Were His End Normally Legacy Die Died Tiny Movement Reputations Muhammad Apparent Appeared Jesus Socrates

God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poison. He was the living God when William Bradford governed Plymouth Colony. He was the living God in 1966 when Thomas Altizer proclaimed him dead and Time magazine absolutely absurdly put it on the front cover. John Piper

God Time Poison Living Universe Thomas Drank Alive William Magazine Plymouth Colony Absolutely He Put Absurdly Dead Him Governed Cover His Existence Front Proclaimed Exploded Socrates

In ancient Greece, Socrates reportedly didn't fancy a literate society. He felt that people would lose the capacity to think for themselves, simply adopting the perspective of a handy written opinion, and that they would cease to remember what could be written down. Nick Harkaway

People Remember Perspective Lose Down Think Society Ancient Would Adopting Could He Written Written Down Simply Felt Opinion Cease Greece Handy Literate Fancy Capacity Themselves Socrates

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. Thomas Carlyle

Great Unconscious Between Difference Conscious Jesus Socrates

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