Quotes on Greek Philosopher

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

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

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

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

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?