Quotes about Philosophy
The best revenge is to be unlike your enemy.
— Marcus Aurelius
It isn't manly to be enraged. Rather gentleness and civility are more human, therefrom more manly.
— Marcus Aurelius
Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse
— Marcus Aurelius
The essence of Ciceronian philosophy is a sense of wonder at the interconnectedness of human beings to one another and to the universe that encompasses them.
— Cicero
There is no people so brutish or barbarous that they do not know that they must believe in a god, even if they do not know precisely what god they should worship.
— Cicero
As for you, my young friends, I urge you to strive for virtue, for without it friendship cannot exist. And friendship, aside from virtue, is the greatest thing we can find in life.
— Cicero
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
— Cicero
I worked with Diodotus the Stoic, who made his residence in my house, and after a life of long intimacy died there only a short time ago.
— Cicero
they follow nature as the most perfect guide to a good life. Now
— Cicero
for my own part I cannot cordially approve, I merely tolerate, a philosopher who talks of setting bounds to the desires. Is it possible for desire to be kept within bounds? It ought to be destroyed, uprooted altogether.
— Cicero
What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?
— Margaret Atwood
God is a cluster of neurons.
— Margaret Atwood