Philosophy Quote by Jeff Burden

To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes…

— Aleister Crowley

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us…

— Lydia M. Child

The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich inward.

— Henry David Thoreau

I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.

— Anonymous

There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not…

— George Bernard Shaw

All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based…

— Carl Sagan

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

— Plato

I do realise that talk of natural kinds dates back to Aristotle, but I'd better not say too much about ancient philosophers lest I…

— Hilary Kornblith

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

— Jack Kevorkian

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

— Plato

“It was a famous Stoic ‘paradox’ that the Sage is believed to be absolutely free, even when imprisoned or exiled by a powerful tyrant.…

— Donald J. Robertson