The unexamined life is not worth living for men.
Plato, Apology 38a, tr. G. M. A. Grube
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Socrates quotes
c. 470-399 BC ยท Philosophers and ancient wisdom
Athenian philosopher known to us mainly through the dialogues of Plato.
6 quotes, 6 traced to where Socrates said or wrote them.
It would be better for me that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.
Plato, Gorgias 482c
Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.
Plato, Republic 506c
There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
Plato, Phaedo 89d
How many things I have no need of!
Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, II
Those who want fewest things are nearest to the Gods.
Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, II