Zitate von Sokrates

Informationen über Sokrates

Philosoph, entwickelte die philosophische Methode eines "strukturierten Dialogs", zu seinen berühmtesten Schülern zählte unter anderem "Platon", Sokrates wurde mittels "Schierlingsbecher" hingerichtet (Griechenland, 470 - 399 v. Chr.).

Sokrates · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Geboren am 06.12.-470 in Athen
Gestorben am 31.12.-399 in Athen
Sternzeichen: ♐ Schütze

• 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.

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• Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty.

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• Crito, we owe a cock to Aesculapius; please pay it and don't forget it.

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• Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

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• Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

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• Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

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• He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.

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• He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

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• How many things I can do without!

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• I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world.

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• I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.

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• I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

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• If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

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• If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

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• If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.

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• In every sort of danger, there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.

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• It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

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• It is perfectly certain that the soul is immortal and imperishable, and our souls will actually exist in another world.

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• Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

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• Man, know thyself.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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