Philosophy Quote by John Maddox Roberts

“You know how much I used to like Plato. Today I realize he lied. For the things of this world are not a reflection…

— Tadeusz Borowski

“The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and…

— Adam Smith

“See how Plato is moved and tossed about. Every man, glorying in applying him to himself, sets him on the side he wants. They…

— Sarah Bakewell

“All Hellenistic schools seem to define [wisdom] in approximately the same terms: first and foremost, as a state of perfect peace of mind. From…

— Pierre Hadot

“[On Socrates] My decision to prove reincarnation to the sophomoric cavemen of Athens, quite possibly, was the best decision I made for both myself…

— Alejandro C. Estrada

“Homeric Greece and everything that philosophy after Plato stood for was, however superficially cordial and continuous, in fact deeply antagonistic, if often at the…

— Walter J. Ong

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The philosophers say that the passions are too lively, too fiery; in truth they are weak and languid. All around one sees the mass…

— Charles Fourier

“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth having: but…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Wisdom—seems to the rabble a kind of escape, a means and a trick for getting well out of a wicked game. But the genuine…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“. . . you would have had a protected, satisfied, laborious, and obedient people, taught to seek and to recognize the happiness that is…

— Edmund Burke

The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life…

— Gertrude Bell