"To them, I said, the truth would be……" — Socrates
"To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images."
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331 Quotes by Socrates
Socrates has 331 quotes on this site.
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Contentment is natural wealth.
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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the…
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the…
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in…
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Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
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Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.
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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
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More Images Quotes
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of…
— Gaston Bachelard
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
— Ansel Adams
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These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty…
— Ansel Adams
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its…
— J. G. Ballard
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I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.
— Lynda Barry
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My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their…
— Rob Bell
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
— Henri Bergson
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Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most…
— Bjork
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My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of…
— David Bohm
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so…
— Niels Bohr
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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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