Sophia: Daily Philosophy

Quotes & Socratic AI dialogue

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.

325 timeless lines from 166 thinkers, East and West — one a day. Question any of them in a Socratic dialogue, and let your own ideas collide. Have you thought about thinking? The familiar lines we all repeat every day — do we really understand them? If we don't, and they simply come out by habit, then is the one speaking still "me"? If not, we are nothing but the shells of other people's thoughts, and that is a sad thing. Sophia is a quiet companion for thinking — not another feed. Each day it offers one carefully chosen line from a philosopher, East and West, with the original and a faithful translation. Sit with it first; then go deeper. • Daily lines — 325 curated lines from 166 thinkers, from ancient Greece to modern Europe, from Laozi to Nietzsche. • Socratic inquiry — not just reading, but asking. Tell it what you're stuck on and the philosopher questions that, in their own voice, leading you to your own realization. (AI role-play, clearly labelled; not their actual words.) • Modern context — an AI reading that lands the line in your real day. • Thought Big Bang — pick a few of your notes or saved lines, let them collide into a hidden thread, a philosopher's challenge, and three small actions for the week. Or review the last 30 days at once. • Mind Lake — keep your understandings and inquiries, grouped by time, searchable, and worth returning to. • Beautiful share cards, an Apple Watch app, and Home Screen widgets. Free: one line a day and the first 100 lines, including favourites, Watch and widgets. Sophia Pro unlocks the full library, all readings, watermark-free sharing — plus unlimited Socratic inquiry and Thought Big Bang. No ads. No feed. Just you, a line worth a day, and room to think. Privacy Policy: https://tangwen9.github.io/sophia-legal/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Socratic inquiry now starts from your situation • Before you begin, write down what you're actually stuck on. The philosopher questions that, instead of lecturing on the quote in the abstract. • New "I disagree" — make the philosopher defend the line, then test your objection. • The realization named at the end is saved on its own; browse your insights alone. • Conversations save themselves. Nothing is lost to a paywall, a dropped connection, or a closed sheet. Thought Big Bang: from one insight to a thread you can follow • This week's actions can be checked off. Seven days later it asks how many happened. • Collide the same material again and it builds on last time rather than starting over. • New monthly review: what you kept returning to, the hidden thread, what to do next month. Mind Lake: worth coming back to • Grouped by time, with insights in their own filter. • Every thought you left on one line, laid out in order — see how your thinking moved. • Today brings back what you wrote a year or a month ago. • Storage rebuilt: no longer bound by iCloud's 1 MB key limit. 325 lines from 166 thinkers • The Islamic tradition, absent until now: Ibn Sina, al-Ghazali, Rumi, Ibn Khaldun. • Science and mathematics: Newton, Darwin, Heisenberg, Feynman, Hilbert, Cantor. • Shakespeare, Marx, Heidegger — and the missing pillars of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Nietzsche. • Several unquestionable aphorisms removed. Fewer, but each one holds. Apple Watch • Raise your wrist and the line is there. One tap switches the translation, with no delay. • Inquiry now streams as the phone generates it. • Your insights on your wrist; favourites sync both ways.

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Seller
宜鑫 谢
Size
11.2 MB
Category
Lifestyle
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
  • Apple Watch
    Requires watchOS 11.0 or later.
Languages
English
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
  • Lifetime $39.99
  • Yearly $19.99
  • Monthly $3.99
Copyright
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