Ancient Philosophy Quotes

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

  Plato

  Inspirational, Education, Philosophy

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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• Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

  Socrates

  Life, Time, Simple

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• Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

  Plato

  Heart, Reality, Words Of Wisdom

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• The gift of truth excels all other gifts.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Truth, Philosophy

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• The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

  Aristotle

  Life, Death, Education

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

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

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Change, Philosophy

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

  Aristotle

  Philosophy, Animal, Men

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• Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

  Epicurus

  Life, Death, Wisdom

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• The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

  Amar Bose

  Mother, Father, Philosophy

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• PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Philosophy, Ancient, Modern

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.173, 谷月社

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• I hope to bring ancient philosophy and new scientific thinking together, to provide a new perspective of nature, especially the relationship between nature and man.

  Liu Dan

  Nature, Philosophy, Men

  "Conversation with Liu Dan". Interview with Jane DeBevoise, www.aaa-a.org. March 25, 2010.

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• Philosophy - reduced, as we have seen, to philosophical discourse - develops from this point on in a different atmosphere and environment from that of ancient philosophy. In modern university philosophy, philosophy is obviously no longer a way of life, or a form of life - unless it be the form of life of a professor of philosophy.

  Pierre Hadot

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Atmosphere

  "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 271), 2001.

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• The scriptures, for example, discredit an ancient philosophy that has come back into vogue in our day-the philosophy of Korihor that there are no absolute moral standards, that "every man prospers according to his genius, and that every man conquers according to his strength; and whatsoever a man does is no crime" and "that when a man is dead, that is the end thereof".

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Philosophy, Men, Scripture

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• One could say that what differentiates ancient from modern philosophy is the fact that, in ancient philosophy, it was not only Chrysippus or Epicurus who, just because they had developed a philosophical discourse, were considered philosophers. Rather, every person who lived according to the precepts of Chrysippus or Epicurus was every bit as much a philosopher as they.

  Pierre Hadot

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Facts

  "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 272), 2001.

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• Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.

  Pierre Hadot

  Art, Philosophy, Jargon

  "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 272), 2001.

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