Greek philosopher Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

Cynicism was a school in Greece - the Cynics. Diogenes is a famous Cynic. There was a strong belief in nihilism and narcissism. Those…

— Oliver Stone

The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.…

— Anthony de Mello

“Unlike at the Academy or the Lyceum, women, some of them concubines and mistresses, as well as a few slaves, joined the conversation; further,…

— Epicurus

“Between the lines Phaedrus read no doubts, no sense of awe, only the eternal smugness of the professional academician.”

— Robert M. Pirsig

“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

“You don’t need schooling to be a philosopher. Just an active mind and experience with life.”

— Isaac Asimov

“The first and last schoolmaster of life is living and committing oneself unreservedly and dangerously to living; to men who know this an Aristotle…

— Thornton Wilder

“The majority of our polities, as Aristotle says, are like the Cyclops, abandoning the guidance of the women and children to each individual man…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Unspoiled by education, frank and unsuspecting as young an8imals, they came up to school from their meadows, their games, and their dreams. The simple…

— Erich Maria Remarque

Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.

— Diogenes

“Aristotle affirms that philosophy did not pass from Greece to Gaul, that is to the Druids, but was received from them.”

— John Daniel

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

— Troy DeNuthe