Quotes About Philosophy

I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose holiness and divinity of nature were not shams, who alone had and imparted true insight into the good, and who brought deliverance to all that consorted with him.

He once saw two philosophers engaged in a very unedifying game of cross questions and crooked answers. 'Gentlemen,' said he, 'here is one man milking a billy-goat, and another catching the proceeds in a sieve.

Non esiste il passato, ma solo il presente del passato (che poi si chiama «memoria»). Non esiste il futuro, ma solo il presente del futuro (che poi si chiama «speranza»). L'unico

ICTs are modifying the very nature of, and hence what we mean by, reality, by transforming it into an infosphere. Infosphere is a neologism coined in the seventies. It is based on 'biosphere', a term referring to that limited region on our planet that supports life. It is also a concept that is quickly evolving.

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Man is a reasoning animal.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

Our (The Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

But if one should guide his life by true principles, man's greatest riches is to live on a little with contented mind; for a little is never lacking.

All things must needs be borne on through the calm void, moving at equal rate with unequal weights.

The lively power of his mind prevailed, and forth he marched far beyond the flaming walls of the heavens, as he traversed the immeasurable universe in thought and imagination.

Anything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world Have endured through the immense span of the past Their natures are immortal--that is clear.

Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

cogitationis poenam nemo patitur!1.