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September 17, 2006
socrates on death
To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not...No one knows with regard to death whether it is really the greatest blessing that can happen to a man, but people dread it as though they were certain that it is the greatest evil, and this ignorance, which thinks that it knows what it does not, must surely be ignorance most culpable...and if I were to claim to be wiser than my neighbor in any respect, it would be in this...that not possessing any real knowledge of what comes after death, I am also conscious that I do not possess it.
Socrates
Posted by amin at September 17, 2006 4:20 PM