Quotes About Philosophy

If no love is, ah God, what feel I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he?

El sabio no dice todo lo que piensa, pero siempre piensa todo lo que dice.

por qué será que todos los que están por encima de la media en filosofía, política, poesía o en las artes parecen ser melancólicos, y hasta cierto punto están incluso amenazados por enfermedades como la bilis negra?

Es de importancia para quien desee encontrar una certeza en su investigación, el saber dudar a tiempo.

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

STREPSIADES. So the rear of a gnat is a trumpet. Oh! what a splendid discovery! Thrice happy Socrates! 'Twould not be difficult to succeed in a law-suit, knowing so much about the gut of a gnat!

Treba se, dakle, baviti filozofijom ili se oprostiti od života i oti?i odavde, jer sve ostalo je golema besmislica i naklapanje.

Das Ziel des Weisen ist nicht Glück zu erlangen, sondern Unglück zu vermeiden.

labais tiek izteikts atbilstoši vis?s es?bas kategorij?s (..) laika kategorij? - ?stais br?dis

I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement....

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with regard to their mode of life.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.

The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of all things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed.

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself

He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period but throughout a complete life.

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities.

How can a man know what is good or best for him, and yet chronically fail to act upon his knowledge?