Funny Quote by Seneca the Younger

“Altius, citius, fortius—is”

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Citius, Altius, Fortius”

— Chris Cleave

“And this puts me in mind of that rich gentleman of Rome, who had been solicitous, with great expense, to procure men that were…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Citius, Altius, Fortius. Faster, Higher, Stronger.”

— Olympic

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

— Anonymous

“In this quest of knowledge ... there are two faults to be shunned—one, the taking of unknown things for known, and giving an assent…

— George Fillmore Swain

“[T]he greater the sense of awe with which a text was regarded, the more complete might be the amnesia as to the original circumstances…

— Tom Holland

“Philo of Larisa, head of the Academy in Athens…inspired Cicero with a passion for philosophy, and in particular for the theories of Skepticism, which…

— Anthony Everitt

“Blindness to larger contexts is a constitutional defect of human thinking imposed by the painful necessity of being able to concentrate on only one…

— Hugh Nibley

“It took us a while to discover that we do effectively think, but that we more readily narrate backward in order to give ourselves…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The better to understand the nature, manner, and extent of our knowledge, one thing is carefully to be observed concerning the ideas we have;…

— John Locke

We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson