A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
Interpretation
What this quote means
To achieve greatness, strive to become the person you want others to perceive you as.
Socrates emphasizes that the shortest path to achieving glory and respect is through genuine effort to become the person you desire to be seen as. This quote suggests that our actions and efforts should align with our aspirations, thereby helping us attain the acknowledgment and honor we seek from others.
Themes
GloryStriveAspirationPerceptionEffort
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used during a motivational speech to inspire students to pursue their dreams.
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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.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward.. My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.
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