Philosophical Quotes
1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
— Aristotle
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Nature does nothing in vain.
— Aristotle
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
— Aristotle
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The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
— Aristotle
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
— Aristotle
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
— Aristotle
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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
— Aristotle
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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
— Aristotle
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It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
— Aristotle
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
— Saint Augustine
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
— Saint Augustine
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He that is jealous is not in love.
— Saint Augustine
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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
— Saint Augustine
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
— Saint Augustine
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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
— Saint Augustine
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
— Saint Augustine
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
— Saint Augustine
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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
— Saint Augustine
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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
— Saint Augustine
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
— Saint Augustine
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
— Saint Augustine
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
— Saint Augustine
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