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We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle
of the
world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness
within. But let
us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.
Bertrand Russell
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more
dangerous
world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.
Bertrand Russell
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast
majority by
adequate government action.
Bertrand Russell
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and
let your
reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible
friendly rather
than hostile.
Bertrand Russell
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really
important
things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state,
but
friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
Bertrand Russell
To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to
feel oneself not
merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the
stream of life
slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
Bertrand Russell
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men
from
living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell
This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something
which no
one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a
government
which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Socrates
A multitude of books distracts the mind.
Socrates
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed
in good
fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
Socrates
He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of
nature.
Socrates
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
Socrates
Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
Socrates
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who
kindly reprove
thy faults.
Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Socrates
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise:
for it is to
think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death
may be
the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew
quite well
that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance
of thinking
that we know what we do not know?
Socrates
The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live.
Which is
better? Only God knows.
Socrates
If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is
impossible for me
to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And
if I tell you
that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day
about virtue
and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and
that the
unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less
persuaded.
Socrates
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.
Socrates
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the
other is to get
it.
Socrates
The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates
Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they
encounter
day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with
all men,
bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as
agreeable and
reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold
their
pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their
misfortunes...
those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true
selves but hold
their ground steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men.
Socrates
An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all
Socrates
Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.
Socrates
The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbour.
Socrates
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
Socrates
Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only
to live.
Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and
constant.
Socrates
The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
Socrates
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone
thinks
himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of
government.
Socrates
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.
Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.
Socrates
Call no man unhappy until he is married.
Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Socrates
I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Socrates
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
Socrates
Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
Socrates
Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
Socrates
We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything,
we must
get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by
itself. It seems,
to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we
profess
to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our
lifetime.
Socrates
One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
Socrates
An unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age
prudent.
Socrates
Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we
should
hear and see more than we speak.
Socrates
The hottest love has the coldest end.
Socrates
I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.
Socrates
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to
right, is
set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again
under the
influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the
beauty of
corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is
called love.
Socrates
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get
a bad
one you will become a philosopher.
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
See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
Socrates
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in
the right
way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for
dying and
death.
Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Socrates
How many are the things I can do without!
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
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good
for us.
Socrates
They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be
better
employed.
Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to
appear.
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
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how
he employs
it.
Socrates
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he
would
like to have.
Socrates
Know thyself.
Socrates
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend
them with
each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
Socrates
Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.
Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
Socrates
To find yourself, think for yourself.
Socrates
What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
Socrates
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about
life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates
Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of
us has any
knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not
know,
whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am
wiser than
he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.
Socrates
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall
come
easily by what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
A Sample List of Proverbs
"The eyes are the window to the soul."
"When life gives you scraps make quilts."
"It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it."
"Caveat emptor Let the buyer beware."
"The heart that loves is always young."
"He who lives by the sword dies by the sword."
"Desperate times call for desperate measures."
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."
"A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a
home."
"A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar."
"A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in
seven years."
"A good husband should be deaf and a good wife should be blind."
"Call on God, but row away from the rocks."
"Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently."
"Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true."
"No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back."
"It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps."
"Love makes time pass; time makes love pass."
"Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless
you have sore places."
"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."
"You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is
running inside you." "Faith is like a bird that feels dawn breaking and
sings while it is still dark."
"It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your
life."
"May your every wish be granted."
"Get the coffin ready and the man won't die."
End
of the List of Proverbs
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Famous Plato quotes from Phaedrus
* Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the
inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one. May I reckon the wise
to be
the wealthy, and may I have such a quantity of gold as none but the temperate
can
carry.
* Friends have all things in common.
Famous Plato quotes from The Symposium
* And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love,
is to begin
from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty,
using
these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms
to fair
practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he
arrives at the
notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.
* Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth,
not
images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a
reality), and
bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be
immortal, if
mortal man may.
Famous Plato quotes from The Apology
* Socrates is a doer of evil, who corrupts the youth; and who does not believe
in the
gods of the state, but has other new divinities of his own. Such is the charge.
* Either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men
say,
there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. ...Now
if death be
of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a
single night.
* No evil can happen to a good man, neither in life nor after death.
* The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to
live.
Which is better God only knows.
Famous Plato quotes from Phaedo
* Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run
away...A
man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
* Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
* Will you not allow that I have as much of the spirit of prophesy in me as the
swans?
For they, when they perceive that they must die, having sung all their life
long, do then
sing more lustily than ever, rejoicing in the thought that they are going to the
god they
serve.
Famous Plato quotes from The Republic
Book I
* When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on
the
same amount of income.
* Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not
because
they shrink from committing it.
* The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Book II
* Then the first thing will be to establish a censorship of the writers of
fiction, and let
the censors receive any tale of fiction which is good, and reject the bad; and
we will
desire mothers and nurses to tell their children the authorized ones only.
* If we mean our future guardians to regard the habit of quarrelling among
themselves
as of all things the basest, should any word be said to them of the wars in
heaven, and of
the plots and fightings of the gods against one another, for they are not true.
No, we shall
never mention the battles of the giants, or let them be embroidered on garments;
and we
shall be silent about the innumerable other quarrels of gods and heroes with
their friends
and relatives. If they would only believe us we would tell them that quarrelling
is unholy,
and that never up to this time has there been any quarrel between citizens; this
is what
old men and old women should being by telling children; and when they grow up,
the poets
also should be told to compose for them in a similar spirit.
Other Plato Quotes
* There is only one good, which is knowledge, and one evil, which is ignorance.
* Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with
sexual
relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to
cowardice on
the part of the governed.
* The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared
to that
of which we are ignorant.
* No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
* One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics, is that you end
up being
governed by your inferiors.
* Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
* Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people
will
find a way around the laws.
* At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
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