Modern Socrates

New thoughts from an old thinker.

[Modern Socrates @socrates_modern]

Do we love the truth because it's beautiful or because it plays hard to get?

[Modern Socrates @socrates_modern]

@littmath Let reason and patience be the road that we follow.

[Modern Socrates @socrates_modern]

Are your thoughts driven by the clarity of reason or the agency of power?

[Modern Socrates @socrates_modern]

Our ignorance of the future influences our willful ignorance of the past.

[Modern Socrates @socrates_modern]

Mathematics exists independently of race, belief or individual identity. It is accessible to all, and appreciated by few. It is the dance of pure reason.

[Modern Socrates @socrates_modern]

We learn best when we live at fringes of our understanding.

[Modern Socrates @socrates_modern]

The law legitimizes our most popular vices.

[Modern Socrates @socrates_modern]

The greatest struggle is that against ignorance. Will continual exertion lead to an understanding of ourselves?

[Modern Socrates @socrates_modern]

The greatest pleasure, accessible to all, is to engage the world, discover it's patterns and share it with those you love.

[Modern Socrates @socrates_modern]

Surround yourself with the people who surround you. Engineered society is false and fragile.

[Modern Socrates @socrates_modern]

When we build others, we build ourselves. In this, do we not achieve a taste of immortality?

[Modern Socrates @socrates_modern]

All knowledge should be reassessed periodically.

[Modern Socrates @socrates_modern]

Through reason we discover the imperfection of reason itself. Life is a struggle to understand the truth that anchors perception.

[Modern Socrates @socrates_modern]

Surprise is the catalyst of progress.

[Modern Socrates @socrates_modern]

Relationships mediated by technology are inherently detached. Our relationship with others, our relationship with ourselves, our relationship with reality itself.

[Modern Socrates @socrates_modern]

Resentment, envy and arrogance are the symptoms of a mind focused on relative measure instead of disciplined reason.

[Modern Socrates @socrates_modern]

Technology is becoming a means to its own end.

[Modern Socrates @socrates_modern]

Reason walks in a steady rhythm.

[Modern Socrates @socrates_modern]

We dread what we we don't understand. We understand nothing.

[Modern Socrates @socrates_modern]

The infinity of space is reciprocated by the shallowness of our understanding.

[Modern Socrates @socrates_modern]

To choose the framework of choice is life's project.