Socratic Philosophy Quotes

#1. Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. Pre-Socratic philosophy begins ... with the discovery of Nature; Socratic philosophy begins with the discovery of man's soul."3

William B. Irvine

#3. To find the truth, try to follow the Socratic method. Just don't forget to follow your intuition and imagination.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel's dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the objectifying technical impulse and loses its ancient task of pursuing the Socratic ideal of the wisdom of the examined life.

Donald Phillip Verene

#5. Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#6. I hate those Socratic dialogues where everything gets drawn out at the pace of an excessively logical snail.

Jo Walton

#7. [At] the end of the day, when we talk about cities, we talk about a gathering of people. And we cannot see that as a problem.

Eduardo Paes

#8. Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.

Cormac McCarthy

#9. If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.

Dee Hock

#10. Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

Mark Strand

#11. Another happy day.

Samuel Beckett

#12. In January 2012, Google Plus started to roll out support for nicknames and pseudonyms, but those registering with a name other than their real-life one must be able to prove that they have been using that alternative name elsewhere, either on the Web or in real life.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#13. Eye-rolling is not exactly the pinnacle of socratic investigation.

Stefan Molyneux

#14. The more we talk about our troubles and our fears, the more life we breathe into them. HS/el

Evinda Lepins

#15. The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change ... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.

Philip K. Dick

#16. I've come within range of hate. Terrifying, its tremors, its dizzying obsessions. Hate's like a swordfish invisible in the water, knifing suddenly into sight with blood on its blade- clear water misleads you.

Pablo Neruda

#17. In New Guinea, they had a disease called kuru, transmitted by eating the brains of their enemies." "That's not true." "Gajdusek won a Nobel Prize for it. They were eating brains, all right.

Michael Crichton

#18. I was a nice girl," she pleaded, "wasn't I?

J.D. Salinger

#19. Mann's Death in Venice actually contains a snippet of philosophy about the second question, when Aschenbach, collapsed in the plaza, engages in his quasi-Socratic, anti-Socratic, ruminations.

Philip Kitcher

#20. If more designers had bad backs, we would have more good chairs.

Ralph Caplan

#21. Have you thought that your willingness to forgive is really your affirmation of the power of God to do you good?

Paula Rinehart

#22. Answer all the questions. Question all the answers.

Laurie Gray

#23. It is extraordinary to think about. We still speak of Socratic or Platonic philosophy, but actually being Plato or Socrates is quite another matter.

Jostein Gaarder

#24. Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak.

John Mearsheimer

#25. The beauty of mind that Cerullo had from childhood didn't find an outlet, Greco, and it has all ended up in her face, in her breasts, in her thighs, in her ass, places where it soon fades and it will be as if she had never had it.

Elena Ferrante