100 quotes from Socrates that influenced the world (worth reading)

Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC) was a famous Greek thinker, philosopher, educator, and citizen juror.

Socrates and his student Plato, along with Plato's student Aristotle, are known as the "Three Sages of Ancient Greece" and are widely regarded by later generations as the founders of Western philosophy.

As a citizen of Athens, Socrates was eventually sentenced to death by the Athenian court for insulting the Athenian gods, introducing neotheism, and corrupting the minds of athenian youth. Although Socrates was given the opportunity to flee, he chose to drink poison and die, because he believed that fleeing would only further undermine the authority of Athenian law.

Socrates' famous quote:

1. "The most precious thing in the world is not "not to get" and "to lose," but to be able to grasp the happiness that can be grasped now." ”

2. Knowing one's own ignorance is the greatest wisdom.

3. I only know one thing, and that is that I don't know anything.

4. Crush is the most beautiful love in the world.

5. Those who want to influence the world must first be able to influence themselves.

6. An unexamined life is not worth living.

7. There are two kinds of people in this world, one is a happy pig and the other is a miserable person. Be a miserable person, not a happy pig.

8. The most passionate love, there will be the most indifferent ending.

9. Whether a person can achieve success depends only on whether he has two conditions: self-esteem and self-confidence.

10. When you are angry, keep your mouth shut so as not to increase your anger.

11. Pride is the product of ignorance.

12. The secret of happiness is not to seek more desire, but to cultivate the ability to purify one's heart.

13. I meet the world, I am at odds with the world, I live up to my mission, I am united with all beings.

14 The truly wise man is the one who can use the wisdom of others to keep himself from being deceived.

15. I am not a wise man, I am just a man who loves wisdom. Plato's Selected Works

16. The less we need, the closer we are to God.

17. Don't rely on gifts to get a friend. You have to contribute your beloved love and learn how to win a person's heart in the right way.

18. There is only one good in the world, and that is knowledge, and there is only one evil, and that is ignorance.

19. Socrates smiled and said in a serious tone, "Children, this is life, life is a choice that cannot be repeated." In the face of a life that cannot be turned back, we can only do three things: solemn choice, strive not to leave regrets; if regrets, face it rationally, and then strive for change; if you can't change, just accept it bravely, don't regret it, and continue to move forward.

20. When the time comes, we go our separate ways, whether it is better to live in this world or to die, only God knows the answer.

21. When many are wandering on a road, they have to give way to a big road and let the time-cherished one rush ahead of them.

22. Only by knowing oneself can one know life.

23. Good habits are the best clothing a person can wear in a social scene.

24. Living is not the goal, living well is.

25. You are a gold mine yourself, the key is to see how to discover and reuse yourself.

26. If all the calamities of man were to be piled up and then redistributed, then I believe that most of the people would be satisfied to take their share of their own.

27. Leisure is the rarest of all wealth.

28. Men live by forgetfulness, and women live by remembering.

29. The most promising successful people are not those who are talented but those who are the best at using every opportunity to discover and develop.

30. Many of the failures of races are failures in the last few steps. It is not easy to run the "road that should be run", and it is certainly more difficult to "run to the end".

31. Adversity is the highest institution of knowledge for mankind, and the conundrum is the door through which people gain wisdom.

32. Any actual experiment shows that any kind of physical or mental disease can be alleviated by eating vegetarian and drinking pure water.

33. Only the lonely are strong.

34. Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is man-made poverty.

35. Humility is the sweet root hidden in the soil, from which all noble virtues sprout and grow.

36. If you can catch the dead me, bury me as much as you want.

37. At the door of death, we are to contemplate not the emptiness of life, but its importance.

38. There is no happier thing in the world than to strive for an ideal. Philosophers tell us that the pleasure of "happiness for the good" arises from morality, and that those who strive for ideals will be able to attain this happiness, because the essence of the ideal contains moral value.

39. Truth has three parts: examination, i.e., seeking it; knowing, i.e., it already exists; and faith, that is, applying it.

40. Anyone who is more than 3 feet tall and wants to stand between heaven and earth for a long time must learn to bow his head.

41. Many runners fail, all fail in the last few steps.

42. Happiness is like this, it often comes to visit suddenly when we are too busy to take care of anything else for a clear purpose.

43. A woman's pure ornament is virtue, not clothing.

44. When I am dissatisfied with a system, I have two paths: either leave the country or follow the legal path to change the system. But I have no right to destroy it in a rebellious way.

45. The health of the body is destroyed by stationary motion, and it is maintained for a long time due to exercise exercises.

46. We meet the world, we eclipse the world, and we will live up to our mission and be able to meet all beings.

47 The truly wise man is the one who can draw on the wisdom of others to keep himself from being deceived.

48. The happiness and joy of mankind lies in the struggle, and the most valuable thing is to strive for the ideal.

48. Love is about crossing a rice field and picking the biggest and most golden ear of wheat to come back, but there is a rule that you can't go back, and you can only pick it once.

49. If I can put up with my own wife, I can put up with anyone!

50. Let man have goodness in front of his face, but not destroy it behind his back.

51. Time consuming reading, you will easily absorb and improve yourself because of the hard-earned experience of others.

52. I follow the trail of truth like a hound.

53. The greatest happiness of mankind is to be able to talk about moral things every day. A soulless life loses the value of human life.

54. The volunteer, in enduring suffering, is inspired by good hope, just as a hunter can endure his toil with joy and pleasure, for he has the hope of hunting wild beasts.

55. Others live for food, I eat for survival.

56. The best person is actually yourself.

57. Everyone has the sun on them, mainly how to make it shine

58 No one does not turn to good because he knows goodness.

59. Life in the world, knowing what you need, is nothing more than a person's instinct; And knowing what you don't need is the wisdom of a person.

60. Beauty is God's smile, music is God's voice.

61. Only reason is the most precious.

62 It is a shame for a person to grow old carelessly and fail to see what he might become after he has developed his physical strength and beauty to the extreme.

63. Even though the rich man prides himself on his wealth, do not praise him until he does not yet know how to use his wealth.

64. Don't rely on gifts to get friends. You have to contribute your sincere love and learn how to win a person's heart in the right way.

65. When you need knowledge just as you need air underwater, you can get it.

66 For writers, writing less is as harmful as a doctor's lack of opportunity to diagnose a doctor.

67. There can be no progress without struggle.

68. Only by being able to influence oneself can one influence the world.

69. To live means to be sick for a long time.

70. The thinking man is the measure of all things.

71. A thousand birds in the forest is not as good as a bird in hand.

72. To use a ridiculous analogy, I am like a bullfly, going around all day to sting you, awakening you, convincing you, accusing you. A General History of the World

73. The root of all wisdom and understanding is contained in the phrase: "Man, know yourself." "

74. For philosophers, death is the final self-actualization. It is something that cannot be asked for, because it opens the door to true knowledge. The soul was freed from the shackles of the body and finally realized the visual realm of the bright heavenly kingdom.

75. It is better to fall out of harmony with others than with oneself.

76. The ignorant are not qualified to do good. For the goodness of ignorance has only the cloak of goodness, but it lacks the kernel of goodness. Ignorance means immorality, and the road to hell is often paved with stones of goodwill.

77."Do you think it is strange if the gods think it is best for me to end this life now?" Don't you know that so far I don't admit that there are any people who have lived better or happier lives than I do? Because I think the people who live the best are the people who best try to figure out how to live their best lives; the happiest people are the people who are most aware that they are getting better and better. Xenophon

78. Without flesh and blood, people's ideas and wishes cannot be realized. However, flesh and bones are the premise of human existence, which does not mean that flesh and bones determine the essence of man and are the reason for man's action. On the contrary, flesh and bones are dominated by the mind. The mind is the reason and reason why a person becomes a man.

79. In the heel book, what annoys people is not to say something false to others loudly with words, nor to deliberately try to mislead others, but to say false things to oneself in one's own mind, especially in "the most important things." Noble Lies

80. Athens is a blunt horse, and I am a bullfly that constantly stings him and gives him vitality.

81."My mother was a midwife, and I wanted to follow in her footsteps, and I was a spiritual midwife who helped others generate their own thoughts." ”

82. It turns out there are so many things in this world that I don't need.

83. The fields and trees did not teach me a little, but the people of the city taught me a lot.

84. Socrates said, "The true pursuit of philosophy is nothing more than learning to die, and learning to be in a state of death."

85 The easiest thing in the world is persistence, and the hardest thing is persistence. It is easy to say that it is because as long as they are willing to do it, everyone can do it, and it is difficult to say that it is because only a few people can really do it.

86. It is better to suffer injustice than to take the initiative to do evil.

87. If we piled everyone's misfortunes into a pile and shared them equally, most people would be willing to accept one and leave happily.

88 In any case, I first identify a principle that I consider to be the most sound, and then set: everything that seems to conform to this principle, whether in terms of causes or in other respects, is true, and whatever does not conform is not true.

89. The Heavens have given man two ears and two eyes, but only one mouthful, so that he may hear more and speak less.

90 Don't think about people who praise everything you say and do, but care about those who criticize your faults in a friendly way.

91 The less we need, the closer it is to God.

92. Ask a friend to make a wish, and owe God a chicken.

93 Man's senses can only know the things of the individual, not their universality. Universality must be deduced by the mind with theory.

94. In the face of the death sentence, Socrates ended his speech with astonishing language, and now the time has come to break up, I will die, you live; who is happier, only God knows.

95. If a person views others from his own standpoint, he will often see people wrongly. I look at people, never look at how he treats me, but how he treats others.

96 If you are wise, then all people will be your friends and loved ones, because you are useful and beneficial to them; but if you are not wise, then neither your parents, nor your relatives, nor anyone else, will be your friends.

97. I think the word wisdom is too big, it is only suitable for God, but the word love is suitable for man, and love is only a natural tendency of man.

98. Look for eternity in a short life.

99 Those who do not understand the true meaning of work regard work as hard labor.

100. I knew it would rain after the thunder.