“If you wish to be a writer; write! Send quote to a friend Epictetus (50-120) Greek philosopher.” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony. — Plato Copy Share Image
At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers. — Plato Copy Share Image
True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
Aristotle is the last Greek philosopher who faces the world cheerfully; after him, all have, in one form or another, a philosophy… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Reality is constantly changing; as the Greek philosopher Heraclitus said, you can’t step into the same river twice.” — Jonathan Landaw 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
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
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek… — Philip K. Dick 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
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
“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
My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and… — Plato 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
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
Reuven listen to me. The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire a teacher.… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Once we face our fear, once we treat our anxiety itself as a thing, we can then choose otherwise. Instead of filling… — David W. Jones Copy Share Image
Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the law of change".… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus taught his students that what happens to them is not as important as what they believe happens… — Stanley Krippner 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
“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
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
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
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
There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink. — Plato Copy Share Image
I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. — Epictetus Copy Share Image