"One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing."

Socrates on knowledge
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"Let him that would move the world, first move himself."

Socrates on influence
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"The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow."

Socrates on humor
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"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."

Socrates on hatred
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"No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government."

Socrates on government
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"The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be."

Socrates on glory
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"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

Socrates on friends and friendship
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"Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."

Socrates on food and eating
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"How many are the things I can do without!"

Socrates on possessions
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"Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us."

Socrates on prayer
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"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."

Socrates on riches
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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

Socrates on knowledge   

"Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth"

Socrates on truth
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"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."

Socrates on contentment
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"Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know."

Socrates on wisdom
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"The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms."

Socrates on wisdom
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"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."

Socrates on wisdom
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"To find yourself, think for yourself."

Socrates on thoughts and thinking
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"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."

Socrates on teacher
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"Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune."

Socrates on change
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"Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me."

Socrates on slander
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"Know thyself."

Socrates on knowledge
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"Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on art
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hope
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"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on humankind
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"Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hygiene
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"We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hypocrisy
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"What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity."

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"Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on intelligence and intellectuals
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"A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on intelligence and intellectuals   

"A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on intuition
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"One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time."

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"The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on growth
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"When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on experience
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"The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact."

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"The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something -- war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce."

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"You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on fights and fighting
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"Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on alcohol and alcoholism
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"There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on america
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"Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on analysis
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