Quotes about Philosophy

if a person fights the clear evidence of his senses he will never be able to share in genuine tranquillity

Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.

With the Epicureans it was never science for the sake of science but always science for the sake of human happiness.

We must free ourselves from the prison of everyday affairs and politics.

If you wish to make Pythocles wealthy, don't give him more money; rather, reduce his desires.

We must laugh and philosophize and manage our households and look after our other affairs all at the same time, and never stop proclaiming the words of the true philosophy.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living pleasantly.

One who understands the limits of the good life knows that what eliminates the pains brought on by need and what makes the whole of life perfect is easily obtained, so that there is no need for enterprises that entail the struggle for success.19

Why should I fear death If I am, Death is not If death is, I am not Why should I fear that which could not exist when I do?

There is nothing dreadful in life for the man who has truly comprehended that there is nothing terrible in not living.

If man is nothing but a material mechanism and part of the world mechanism, then his choices of good and evil are mechanically determined, and he cannot be said to be an autonomous and responsible ethical being. Thus if materialism is to save moral responsibility and at the same time save determinism, it must represent man as partially determined (in his organic functions) and partially free (in his ethical capacity).

It's a great thing learning how to die.