Death Quote by Jostein Gaarder

“At a great distance appeared with the same pomp the sheep of Thebes, the dog of Bubastis, the cat of Phoebe, the crocodile of…

— Voltaire

The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were…

— Alain de Botton

Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving…

— George Will

Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated,…

— Hippocrates

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

— Socrates

Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong. Their understanding…

— E. O. Wilson

“If you wish to be a writer; write! Send quote to a friend Epictetus (50-120) Greek philosopher.”

— Epictetus

I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a…

— Arianna Huffington

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality…

— Brigid Brophy

“Once we face our fear, once we treat our anxiety itself as a thing, we can then choose otherwise. Instead of filling the unknown…

— David W. Jones

“What would have made [seeing Göbekli Tepe from Harran] easier, in antiquity, would have been a tall tower annexed to the temple that once…

— Graham Hancock