Socrates Quotes

Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.

You must shift your sail with the wind.

The art of our necessities is strange, And can make vile things precious.

When you live in Manchester and it's raining every day, you've got to imagine the sun sometimes. When you're brought up in concrete, you aim for the green leaves. And when you get to the green leaves, you yearn again for concrete.

It's hard keeping everything the same when the same things look and feel so different

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo

There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.

I came to Nantes two-years-ago and it's much the same today, except that it's totally different.

A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.

Can you tell the difference between them?

A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.

How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.

Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is

Don't be led away by those howls about realism. Remember-pine woods are just as real as pigsties and a darn sight pleasanter to be in.

I didn't have this rebellious streak in me. To me, I'm a product of circumstance.

There's a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness.

Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit.

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

When the wind blows,the grass bends.

I've learned to write the truth. But to do that, I had to figure out what the truth was-and I had to realize that the truth isn't always the same for everyone. I had to realize that my truth may not be the same as your truth.

[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.

We must hang on to the idea that we can actually change things. That's the sort of environment that Joe finds himself in, in Young Adam.

A hard life improves the vision.