I suspect this place would become very boring if we thought like this:
“I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.”
Meh.
My friends call me Page.
As in Page - The Oracle.....
Nice to see Socrates making a rare appearance on STW...
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All we are is dust in the wind, dude. 8)
The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
Allegedly by Socrates.
Some things never change.
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At the end of the day you have to be philosophical, its a game of two halves.
how much to get in ?
I do not know anything
Pfffft.. you're straight into a logical paradox there Socrates me old mate.
At the very least you appear to [i]know[/i] that you [i]"do not know anything"[/i], which means you do know something...
As usual, Shakespeare said it better:
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
As usual, Shakespeare said it better:
You're saying Shakespeare would take Socrates in a wisdom smack-down?
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Methinks perhaps not.
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed,
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.