Quotes on Philosophical

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

The secret to humor is surprise.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Change in all things is sweet.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

The law is reason, free from passion.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Confine yourself to the present.

For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to live well, that to live well is nothing else but to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.