Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.
Socrates
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Socrates
Philosopher
Teacher
Sokrates
Beauty
Comes
Firsts
Matter
First
Secondary
Matters
Victory
Joy
More quotes by Socrates
The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.
Socrates
If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.
Socrates
People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.
Socrates
Not I, but the city teaches.
Socrates
The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness for that runs faster than death.
Socrates
All things in moderation, including moderation.
Socrates
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Socrates
Happiness is unrepented pleasure.
Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates
In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine.
Socrates
If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbour follows a similar path, will we need to go to war against our neighbour to secure greater pasturage, because ours will not be enough to sustain us, and our neighbour will have a similar need to wage war on us for the same reason.
Socrates
She soars on her own wings.
Socrates
If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.
Socrates
Laws are not made for the good.
Socrates
It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.
Socrates
True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.
Socrates
True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.
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
Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.
Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
Socrates