Quotes by Socrates

Socrates

Greek philosopher

Lived from: 469 - 399

Category: Philosophers Country: Greece

Quotes 61 till 66 of 66.

• Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

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• What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

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• Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

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• 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.

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• Wisdom begins in wonder.

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• Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• resemblances
• acquisition
• everywhere
• presumably
• extension
• worthless

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