History Quote by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

“In Montaigne’s redrawn portrait of the adequate, semi-rational human being, it is possible to speak no Greek, fart, change one’s mind after a meal,…

— Alain de Botton

“He was not only the last of the great Greek philosophers, he was Europe's first great biologist.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“Greeks did not invent philosophy, philosophy had existed across Latin America, Africa, Arabia, India and China, thousands of years earlier, not as some elitist…

— Abhijit Naskar

“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that Stoicism is…

— Bertrand Russell

“for where the religions spirit is not tolerated, where there is no room for poetry and art, where love and death are robbed of…

— Josef Pieper

“For what was civilization but the intellect’s ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely…

— Amor Towles

“One realises, with horror, that the race of men is almost extinct in Europe. Only Christ-like heroes and woman-worshipping Don Juans, and rabid equality-mongrels.…

— D.H. Lawrence

“The basic philosophy of life seemed to be: What do I care? It's none of my business. [The philosophy of Naples, Italy.]”

— Franco Di Mare

“PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. The wisdom of a million…

— Ambrose Bierce

The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our…

— Friedrich Schiller

“It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of – namely, the confession of its originator,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.”

— John Leslie