The Greeks had started to shed the crippling shackles of authoritarian mystical and political dogma and replace it with reason.

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“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; “It is a sign of intelligence to consider arguments with which you do not agree” Aristotle “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.” Socratese

It will be difficult to reach a positive conclusion in these matters unless they be frequently discussed. It is by no means fruitless to be doubtful on particular points Aristotle

“It is the mark of an educated mind to “It is a sign of intelligence to consider arguments with which you do not agree” Aristotle “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it” Aristotle “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.” Socratese

The Greek Civilisation had started to shed the crippling shackles of authoritarian mystical and political dogma and replace it with reason. This was the age of the First Enlightenment and fundamental to this new Freethought Movement was the precious humanitarian concept of doubt

“The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.” “When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.” ““Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.” “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”

Raphael’s School of Athens Plato and Aristotle

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think” “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.” ““Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.” “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”  ― Socrates tags: knowledge, wisdom 8351 likes like “The unexamined life is not worth living.”  ― Socrates tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom 4096 likes “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”  ― Socrates 2308 likes “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”  ― Socrates tags: knowledge, philosophy 1253 likes “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”  ― Socrates tags: amazement, wisdom, wonder 980 likes “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”  ― Socrates tags: philosophy 844 likes “To find yourself, think for yourself.”  ― Socrates tags: independence, self-reliance 824 likes “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”  ― Socrates tags: marriage 641 likes “Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.”  ― Socrates tags: friendship 617 likes “Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”  ― Socrates tags: gossip 591 likes “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”  ― Socrates tags: education, enlightenment, learning, lifelong-learning, mentorship 569 likes “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”  ― Socrates tags: avarice, contentment, gluttony, greed 529 likes “If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.”  ― Socrates 518 likes “Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”  ― Socrates tags: humor, teachers, teens 452 likes “Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”  ― Socrates 406 likes “Know thyself.”  ― Socrates tags: inspirational 381 likes “The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.”  ― Socrates tags: knowledge-ignorance 349 likes “Let him who would move the world first move himself.”  ― Socrates tags: change, self-determination, self-development 300 likes “Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”  ― Socrates 296 likes “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”  ― Socrates 267 likes “Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”  ― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates (Barnes & Noble Collector's Library) tags: contentment, philosophy 263 likes “Every action has its pleasures and its price.”  ― Socrates “The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”  ― Socrates tags: character, excellence, reputation, striving “Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.”  ― Socrates tags: golden-rule 249 likes “When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”  ― Socrates 243 likes “I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”  ― Socrates 235 likes “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”  ― Socrates tags: inspirational, reading, wisdom 209 likes “Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”  ― Socrates 201 likes “We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.”  ― Socrates tags: character, rectitude 191 likes “Envy is the ulcer of the soul.”  ― Socrates

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