Quotes About Philosophy

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.

Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life, for the greatest is the possession of friendship.

It is not the pretended but the real pursuit of philosophy that is needed for we do not need the appearance of good health but to enjoy it in truth.

Contented poverty is an honorable estate.

What was most important in Epicurus' philosophy of nature was the overall conviction that our life on this earth comes with no strings attached; that there is no Maker whose puppets we are; that there is no script for us to follow and be constrained by; that it is up to us to discover the real constraints which our own nature imposes on us.

If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people's opinions, you will never be rich.

if a person fights the clear evidence of his senses he will never be able to share in genuine tranquillity

Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.

Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.

With the Epicureans it was never science for the sake of science but always science for the sake of human happiness.

Therefore, foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.

when you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.

We must free ourselves from the prison of everyday affairs and politics.

I am grateful to blessed Nature, because she made what is necessary easy to acquire and what is hard to acquire unnecessary.

Live in obscurity--lathe bi?sas (???? ??????)

The man who says that all events are necessitated has no ground for critizing the man who says that not all events are necessitated. For according to him this is itself a necessitated event.

How unhappy are the lives of men! How purblind their hearts!