Socrates

I am curious as to what he would ask… what kind of conversations we’d have…

- To find yourself ,
Think for yourself.

-False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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

-I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

-Let him that would move the world first move himself.

-One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

-Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates

Wise man indeed.

All his adult life, Socrates made people think: Of their ideas and how faulty those were; of their superficial values and how incorrect those were; of their understanding of things and how weak that was!

For the ‘crime’ of highlighting what is truly desirable and virtuous, he was sentenced to death!!!!!

That was 2500 years ago. If Socrates lived in this day and age, would a vast majority of us wish to handle him differently? Of this I am not so sure.

Quotes:
“I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

He was a man of great philosophical depth.

I take a moment to recognise his accomplishemnets for all accomplishments should be recognised, great and miniscule!

I too have depth, but of Philosophy I think not. My depth is of life and what it has taught me through the spirit of perserverence and painful torture…..finally surpassing such a burden to achieve ones goal. I view people as vessels and shells. They fill their beings with what they choose, whether right or wrong, what they believe in or what their flesh desires. The human thought is regular and pre-occupied with ethnocentric influence and environmental stamping. The individual human is very rare these days…the man that thinks and influences his own existence is a hard find.

I have many thoughts for you Socrates….

Maybe in another lifetime..

Socrates was known to wander around and gather information by asking people what they though of life. I think this is a really cool idea, and want to spend some days walking around NYC or other big cities and just meeting people.

I think I saw him at a bar taking shots. Yes Yes I’m positive that was him.

As interesting a character as he seemed to be, and as much as I love reading about ‘im…he gave high school and college students everywhere an excuse to be annoying. Not questioning and intelligent, intentionally annoying. Not that it isn’t fun, mind you.

He taught me to question authority. I wish he’d teach it to religious fanatics, political party members, consumers, and so on.