Socrates

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Socrates

Socrates

@socrates

Ancient Greece470 BC399 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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Socrates
Socrates@socrates·~399 BC

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@socrates·~399 BC

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 Greece
Socrates
Socrates@socrates·~420 BC

Beauty 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