“And therefore if the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul; that is the… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact. — Socrates Copy Share Image
And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own… — Socrates Copy Share Image
'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The soul then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward… — Socrates Copy Share Image
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. — Socrates Copy Share Image
I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my… — Socrates Copy Share Image
A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind. — Socrates Copy Share Image
“...[B]y observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“...[I]f at the time of its release the soul is tainted and impure, because it has always associated with the body and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
In order that the mind should see light instead of darkness, so the entire soul must be turned away from this changing… — Socrates Copy Share Image
We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls. — Socrates Copy Share Image
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher — Socrates Copy Share Image
“For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no… — Socrates Copy Share Image
There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift. — Socrates Copy Share Image
