124. Philosophy � Greek

This statement by Socrates means that the ordinary life without the quest to KNOW-THY-SELF as eternal spirit is not worth living. It is the waste of the opportunity to truly understand and experience life IN the physical body, but not AS the body.

"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing."

-Socrates

i.e., all I know now in my spiritual state, is the "understanding" of all things and that the knowing of all things in the intellectual state of mind was only the process of "naming" and creating concepts by the psychological ego-I, the personality of the physical body and brain (necessary for the physical body in a social structure, until it becomes obsessive-compulsive, but eventually must be transcended).

"No man does wrong knowingly."

-Socrates

Socrates makes this statement as he tries to explain the state of SPIRITUAL-SELF-REALIZATION (virtue) i.e., "TO KNOW THEY SELF"...as eternal spirit (i.e., to EXPERIENCE they self as eternal spirit)...Once anyone attains this superior state, they do not relinquish it "KNOWINGLY" in order to fall back into the WRONG state of the psychological egocentric condition...the EGO-I or Sin (to miss the mark = i.e. the true SELF or soul becomes entangled and then identifies with the physical body self or psychological Ego-I of the body-brain.) Spiritual SELF Realization is the same as: Nirvana, Satori, Samadhi, the Kingdom of GOD, Heaven, Tao, At-One-Ment, etc., etc.

In Luke 9:62, Jesus makes the same statement when he says: "No one having put his hand to the plow (experiencing SELF-realization) and looking back (unsure of his new state and desiring to return to the familiar egoic state) is not fit for the kingdom of God.

No man does wrong knowingly.

Second example:

From the state of "knowing," or true knowledge, divine-SELF-realization, enlightenment, etc., etc. No one would do harm to any other human being, physically, mentally, or spiritual. One would not do harm to one's self either, for to do so would cause one to return back to the egoic state of mind, one would not be RIGHT MINDED (from Buddha) any longer. One would also be subject to the laws of KARMA, or UNIVERSAL ENERGY RESPONSE (from Taoism).

The aim of all knowledge* is to raise us to the contemplation of the idea of 'good.' The source alike of being and knowing and the ideal philosopher is one whose goal, at the end of a life lived to the full, (attaining spiritual consciousness) is always a life of quiet, of indrawn stillness, of solitude and aloofness, in which the world forgetting, (the false egoic state) by the 'good,' (same as being born again) "that and that alone is really life."

-Plato

Wisdom is a condition in a being at rest.

-Plotinus

(rest = divine SELF realization)