Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 428 Bc Death: 348 Bc
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty..
And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattracti….
The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging rea….
There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink..
I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a s….
We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is….
The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality..
Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike..
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and ….
Through obedience learn to command..
Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight one….
Where love reigns, there's no need for laws..
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education..
Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek t….
And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or wast….
No human thing is of serious importance..
A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something..
The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to y….
Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected….
I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be de….
No man should be angry with what is true..