Philosophy Quotes


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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

- Aristotle

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

- Aristotle

Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone`s power and that is not easy.

- Aristotle

Well begun is half done.

- Aristotle

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

- Aristotle

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

- Aristotle

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

- Socrates
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Hope is a waking dream.

- Aristotle

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

- Aristotle

Education is the best provision for old age.

- Aristotle

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

- Aristotle

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

- Aristotle

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

- Aristotle

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

- Aristotle

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

- Aristotle

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

- Aristotle

Woman once made equal to man becomes his superior

- Socrates
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

- Socrates
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

- Aristotle

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

- Aristotle

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

- Socrates
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

- Aristotle

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

- Aristotle

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

- Socrates
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

- Aristotle

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

- Aristotle

The secret to humor is surprise.

- Aristotle

The unexamined life is not worth living.

- Socrates
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

- Socrates
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

- Aristotle

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you`ll be happy; if not, you`ll become a philosopher.

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

- Aristotle

Nature does nothing uselessly.

- Aristotle

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature`s way.

- Aristotle

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

- Socrates
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We make war that we may live in peace.

- Aristotle

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

- Aristotle

Man is by nature a political animal.

- Aristotle

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

- Aristotle

Philosophy is the science which considers truth

- Aristotle

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

- Aristotle

Wisdom begins in wonder.

- Socrates
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The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

- Aristotle

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones.

- Aristotle

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

- Aristotle

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

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

- Aristotle

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

- Aristotle

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

- Aristotle

One swallow does not make a summer.

- Aristotle