By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
-Socrates
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.
-Socrates
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
- Socrates
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
- Socrates
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
Well said, Socrates - you wise soul!
Thanks for sharing these quotes, Emma!
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
Well said, Socrates - you wise soul!
Thanks for sharing these quotes, Emma!
Hola my dearest Propstoart. It is so good to see you here. I hope all's well with you and you are dandy.
See, I've always found Socrates to be slightly naughty as well because of the comments he had made re: marriage but if you look into his life, you'll see he had reasons for those comments. It turns out, his wife would send him off to do some groceries, but Socrates - the philosopher that he was, would often find himself in a group of people telling them to ask the bigger questions in life and then he'd go on to lecture about those questions and their possible answers. And all this would make him forget why he was out on the road in the first place. So as a result, he would always find his wife standing at the door with a broomstick giving him very cold and long looks, because sure enough, once again, Socrates had forgotten to do the groceries. But in retrospect, Socrates after all, wasn't he marrying kind and neither him nor his wife, who btw thought he was quite incompetent when it came to household stuff, realized that. It makes me sad because all my life I have looked for a guy like him and all I can find is one hard materialist after another, alas. I would have worshiped Socrates had he been my husband! heck, he didn't have to even marry me. lol.
Socrates teaching was quite radical and advanced for the people in his time hence the authority felt the need to remove him altogether from the picture. He was given hemlock based poison to drink and that's when he made this great remark, "The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows."
Notice how he mentions just God but not Gods though one of the accusations against him was that he introduced new deities and did not acknowledge the old ones. I thought that was interesting.
I'd like to get Jesse (james) here but he argues with me a bit much. Very argumentative his nature but still, he's knowledgeable and I respect that. We do have some threads for him to thrive on but chances are, he will probably go after me first. lol.
Your God Is Not God - by Krisnamurti
A man who believes in God can never find God. If you are open to reality, there can be no belief in reality. If you are open to the unknown, there can be no belief in it. After all, belief is a form of self-protection, and only a petty mind can believe in God. Look at the belief of the aviators during the war who said God was their companion as they were dropping bombs! So you believe in God when you kill, when you are exploiting people. You worship God and go on ruthlessly extorting money, supporting the army; yet you say you believe in mercy, compassion, kindliness. As long as belief exists, there can never be the unknown; you cannot think about the unknown, thought cannot measure it. The mind is the product of the past, it is the result of yesterday, and can such a mind be open to the unknown? It can only project an image, but that projection is not real; so your god is not God, it is an image of your own making, an image of your own gratification. There can be reality only when the mind understands the total process of itself and comes to an end. When the mind is completely empty-only then is it capable of receiving the unknown. The mind is not purged until it understands the content of relationship -its relationship with property, with people until it has established the right relationship with everything. Until it understands the whole process of conflict in relationship, the mind cannot be free. Only when the mind is wholly silent, completely inactive, not projecting, when it is not seeking and is utterly still -only then that which is eternal and timeless comes into being.
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot
I love this!
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
Well said, Socrates - you wise soul!
Thanks for sharing these quotes, Emma!
Hola my dearest Propstoart. It is so good to see you here. I hope all's well with you and you are dandy.
See, I've always found Socrates to be slightly naughty as well because of the comments he had made re: marriage but if you look into his life, you'll see he had reasons for those comments. It turns out, his wife would send him off to do some groceries, but Socrates - the philosopher that he was, would often find himself in a group of people telling them to ask the bigger questions in life and then he'd go on to lecture about those questions and their possible answers. And all this would make him forget why he was out on the road in the first place. So as a result, he would always find his wife standing at the door with a broomstick giving him very cold and long looks, because sure enough, once again, Socrates had forgotten to do the groceries. But in retrospect, Socrates after all, wasn't he marrying kind and neither him nor his wife, who btw thought he was quite incompetent when it came to household stuff, realized that. It makes me sad because all my life I have looked for a guy like him and all I can find is one hard materialist after another, alas. I would have worshiped Socrates had he been my husband! heck, he didn't have to even marry me. lol.
Hey, Emma! Yep, I'm enjoying learning about the great Socrates and his marital woes!! : )
I must admit, it feels good to chat about such deep stuff, after a week of mind-numbingly uninspiring work.
I got a quote for you by Maya Angelou:
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
And I will compliment yours with a quote from the great Plato.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. -Plato
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.- Plato
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. -Wayne Dyer
I say there is no darkness but ignorance. - William Shakespeare
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. -
Socrates
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. -Plato
Plato there completely grasped it. There's no evil or darkness in the sense people tend to think about it. Just like darkness is the absence of light - evil is the lack of awareness. You don't fight darkness with light; you just bring light into darkness. Therefore, you make it aware.
And good or light consists of awareness, love, truth, justice, beauty, innocence, understanding etc. Darkness or evil is the absence of all these archetype values. This Universe purposefully consists of good and evil and your free will is the access to each of this. In other words, you get to choose. And you become what you choose, so choose carefully my friends.
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."
Thomas Sowell