Socrates Quote by Jamie Sedgwick

“Socrates said that a man doesn’t want what he doesn’t think he lacks. That is, if you believe you have the truth then why…

— Peter Boghossian

“And what did it mean that this choice was an illusion, that all choices are illusions, or that if they are not illusions, their…

— Kevin Powers

“Socrates made people face their hypocrisy. He had to die.”

— Francis Mont

“But the truth is, O men of Athens, that God only is wise; and by his answer he intends to show that the wisdom…

— Plato

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

— Plato

“Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is…

— Cormac McCarthy

“A man must sometimes be forced to make choices, for it is only by his choices that we know what a man truly is.”

— Chaim Potok

“Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be--and are ruined.”

— W.K. Marriott

“A Man can Choose what he wants to be. A Gentleman doesn't have a Choice.”

— M.G. Hardie

“But strange though it may seem, the more he judged, and the more he realized that men feared and acknowledged his right to judge,…

— Lev Shestov

[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from…

— Iain Pears

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

— Plato