And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
Tag: Socrates
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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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.