Quotes about Philosophy

While both [Plato and truth] are dear, piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

A man married to the right woman will be happy. A man married to the wrong woman will be a philosopher.

Law is mind without reason.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things.

Science is not wisdom.