Latest Socrates Quotes from Interviews

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• The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave as memorials of himself works many and fair; and, instead of being the author of encomiums, he would prefer to be the theme of them.

  Socrates

  Real, Artist, Memorial

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• A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.

  Socrates

  Art, Children, Distance

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• Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.

  Socrates

  Art, Ignorance, Simple

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• God desired to be the real maker of a real bed, not a particular maker of a particular bed, and therefore He created a bed which is essentially and by nature one only.

  Socrates

  Real, Bed, Makers

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• Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form.

  Socrates

  Names, Ideas, Numbers

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• There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table.

  Socrates

  Ideas, Two, Bed

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• The duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener.

  Socrates

  Eye, May

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