Socrates Quotes on Philosophy (5 Quotes)

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

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.

Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. Socrates (470-399 B.C.)