Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink. — Plato Copy Share Image
If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Diogenes, the Greek philosopher who founded the Cynical school, lived in a barrel.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“The Greek philosopher Epictetus recognised this two thousand years ago when he wrote: ‘What disturbs and alarms man are not the things… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“The earliest Greek philosopher's criticized Homer's mythology because the gods resembled mortals too much and were just as egotistic and treacherous.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
You get most out of walking by going along briskly, swinging the arms and breathing deeply. It also helps promote the circulation… — Paul Dudley White Copy Share Image
There was a Greek philosopher who taught that, of all things, not to have been born is the sweetest state. But I… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is… — George Will Copy Share Image
“One of the early critics of Christianity was Celsus (fl. 180), the witty philosopher who observed that Christianity was a "degraded kind… — D.M. Murdock Copy Share Image
Indian monks were the first to choose the garden as the proper setting for their lives, which were devoted to the contemplation… — Marie-Luise Gothein Copy Share Image
Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
“One of my favorite arguments against Jesus was how do we know He really existed? How do we know that accounts of… — Tom Skinner Copy Share Image
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
“What would have made [seeing Göbekli Tepe from Harran] easier, in antiquity, would have been a tall tower annexed to the temple… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers. — Plato Copy Share Image
Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony. — Plato Copy Share Image
“If you wish to be a writer; write! Send quote to a friend Epictetus (50-120) Greek philosopher.” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
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