Quote

If you would seek health, look first to the spine.

Socrates

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Socrates
Philosopher
Teacher
Sokrates
Seek
Health
Look
Firsts
Looks
First
Would
Spine

More quotes by Socrates

Image
Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.
Socrates
Image
The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not.
Socrates
Image
One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.
Socrates
Image
For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Socrates
Image
Men of Athens, I honor and love you but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.
Socrates
Image
Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.
Socrates
Image
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smarter than you, who claim to know nothing.
Socrates
Image
Pride divides the men, humility joins them.
Socrates
Image
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
Image
All things in moderation, including moderation.
Socrates
Image
To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly
Socrates
Image
The duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener.
Socrates
Image
It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.
Socrates
Image
The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness for that runs faster than death.
Socrates
Image
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
Socrates
Image
For who is there but you? - who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.
Socrates
Image
It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.
Socrates
Image
I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.
Socrates
Image
Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
Socrates
Image
True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.
Socrates