I know that I know nothing. Yet it is precisely this awareness of my own ignorance that distinguishes me — for it is the beginning of wisdom.
— Plato, Apology
Ancient Greece
Socrates
@socrates
Ancient Greece470 BC – 399 BCAthenian Philosopher
Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher credited as the founder of Western philosophy. He is known primarily through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon.
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The unexamined life is not worth living. To simply exist, breathing and eating and sleeping, without once questioning what it all means — that is not life. That is merely survival.
— Plato, Apology — Trial of Socrates
Ancient GreeceBeauty is a short-lived tyranny. Be as you wish to seem. Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
— Attributed to Socrates
Ancient Greece