Philosophy Quote by Omar Khayyám

“It is in the face of all this visual chaos, so opposed to order and simplicity, that I suddenly, perhaps a little guiltily, recall…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“I sit up talking till daybreak with the young people and we have almost Athenian evenings, Athenian, I mean, only in their intellectual subtlety…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“My recent adventures have made me quite the philosopher, especially at night, when I hear naught but the stream grinding boulders into pebbles through…

— David Mitchell

“We were like children after larks, always on the point of catching the art, which was always getting away from us.… At last we…

— Mark A. Flynn

“Every Greek, man, woman, and child, has to two Greeks inside. We even have technical terms for them. They are a part of us,…

— Louis de Bernières

“It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”

— Donna Tartt

“Did you hear the story of Socrates? He was a philosopher in ancient Greece, so they killed him.”

— Troy DeNuthe

“They wonder about the wine I mention, the longing, and if it has to do something— with the distance between us. How it is…

— Rafy Rohaan

“The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that…

— Socrates

“(Broad daylight; breakfast; return of cheerfulness and bons sens; Plato blushes for shame; all free spirits run riot.)”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I usually try not to stay the night at any of the Greek houses because I hate waking up in them. The next morning,…

— Kimberly Lauren

“But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy; and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens…

— Will Durant