Anyone who has made extraordinary achievements in history is a person who can control himself.
A person who can control himself must first be a person who knows himself.
To know yourself and yourself is to have a full understanding of yourself, know what you can and can't do, know your own advantages and disadvantages, and know what you want.
People who know their strengths will not sell themselves short, people who know their weaknesses will not be conceited, people who know what they want will not be blind and will not get lost in the bustling crowd.
People who can know themselves should not only know themselves, but also know people. Only by "knowing people" can we see "the building outside the mountains and green hills" Once the pattern of people is opened, the world becomes the present.
People who really know themselves will not set their goals too high, but will set practical goals in a down-to-earth manner and then act resolutely. Imagine, people who do this, what else in the world can't do?
There is an old saying in our country, "Know yourself and know yourself, and you will win every battle." This sentence is similar to "people who want to control the world must first be able to control themselves."
Both are difficult-knowing yourself. Knowing people is just a matter of consideration, but knowing yourself requires some consideration. Knowing people needs a pair of eyes, and knowing yourself needs an eye.
People who want to control the world must first be able to control themselves-this sentence comes from Socrates, a famous ancient Greek philosopher more than two thousand years ago.
We can spy on his thoughts and wisdom through his words and deeds and fill our hearts.
Socrates' quotations
Know yourself.
The problem is the midwife, which can help the birth of new ideas.
I only know one thing in my life, why I am so ignorant.
There are two kinds of people in this world, one is a happy pig and the other is a miserable person. It is better to be a miserable person than a happy pig.
The less we need, the closer we are to God.
People who want to control the world must first be able to control themselves.
Tell me your friends, and I will know what kind of person you are.
A happy marriage can only bring you happiness, but an unhappy marriage can make you a philosopher.
The death of Socrates
Socrates, at the age of 70, was sentenced to death by the authorities-he drank a cup of poison and was charged with spreading dissent, corrupting customs and opposing democracy.
During his detention, his friends tried to persuade him to escape, bribed the jailer and made an escape plan, but he would rather die than go against his beliefs.
Before the execution, a woman suddenly ran to him and cried sadly, "I'm so sad." You haven't committed any crime, but they want to put you to death. "
Socrates smiled and said, "Silly elder sister, do you want me to commit a crime and die like a real criminal?"
Socrates was a famous moral teacher at that time.
Socrates never gives students ready-made answers when teaching students, but makes students unconsciously accept his thoughts by asking questions and refuting them.
He believes that education is to induce people's innate knowledge and virtue.
In teaching, he often adopts the question-and-answer teaching method in which teachers and students talk to each other and ask questions about business problems.
Young people, old people, rich people, poor people, farmers, artisans, nobles and civilians are all his teaching objects. No matter who asks him for advice, he teaches enthusiastically.
At the age of 40, he had a group of students who supported and followed him, the most famous of whom was Plato.
Socrates' face-changing technique
Socrates often argues with others. In the debate, he made the other side correct and give up the original wrong ideas by asking and answering questions, and helped the other side produce new ideas.
His debating skills usually need four steps: satire, midwifery, induction and definition.
Sarcasm is to make the other person contradict himself and admit his ignorance of this problem through constant questioning.
Midwifery, that is, helping the other party to abandon their misconceptions, find the right and universal things, and help the truth come out.
Induction, that is, to find out where * * * is from individual things, and to find the general law through the analysis of individual things.
Definition is to put a single concept into the general.
Socrates, Plato and Aristotle are also called "the three great philosophers of ancient Greece". He was the founder of western philosophy and was recognized as the most wise man at that time.
Plato is Socrates' student and Aristotle is Plato's student, which shows that Socrates' thought has influenced generation after generation.
Socrates' defense
Socrates' Pleadings before his departure is an eternal swan song dedicated to freedom of thought in the history of western thought, which also makes his personality great and eternal.
In 399 BC, a young man named Morites sued Socrates in Athens, saying that he did not believe in the city-state god and corrupted the youth.
So Socrates was summoned and made a famous defense in front of a jury of 500 people.
"... you Athenians ... I am not an eloquent person at all, unless they regard the truth as eloquent. If they regard truth as an orator, then I am indeed an orator-certainly not what they say. ……
..... whether a person's writing is superb or not is not important, but the fairness of the writing is the most critical. Judges should also have such qualities, and defenders should also be true. ……
You Athenians, I just attracted their unanimous condemnation because of some wisdom. What kind of wisdom is this? Maybe it's just human wisdom. Maybe I really have this wisdom. ……
..... I once visited a man who is said to be very smart ... After talking with him, I think this man is very wise in the eyes of many people, especially himself. However, this is not the case.
Then, I tried to point out to him that people who think they are smart actually don't have much wisdom. As a result, I was jealous and hostile by him and many people present.
After I left, I thought to myself, it turned out that neither he nor I knew that my wisdom was better than his. He regards ignorance as knowledge, I know as knowledge and I don't know as knowledge.
Perhaps at this point, I am indeed smarter than him, because I never take ignorance as knowledge. ……"
Through these excerpts, we can generally feel Socrates' wisdom of being a man, knowing people and confidanting.
Socrates was finally sentenced for his thoughts, which is a sorrow in the history of human thought. But his thoughts were passed down by his students and "influenced" the world for more than 2000 years.
In fact, in the history of human development, it may be an idea, an invention, an accidental discovery, a novel imagination, a painting, a book and so on. , or what are you doing!