Famous Quotes & Sayings

Epicurus

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

Epicurus

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

Epicurus

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Epicurus

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

Epicurus

Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy.

Epicurus

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

Epicurus

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Epictetus

Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.

Epictetus

If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you; but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before.

Epictetus

If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.

Epictetus

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Epictetus

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Epictetus

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Epictetus

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

Epictetus

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

Epictetus

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Epictetus

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Epictetus

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Epictetus

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Epictetus

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

Epictetus

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

Epictetus

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Emily Dickinson

A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.

Emeril Lagasse

My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.

Emeril Lagasse

Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.

Hermann von Helmholtz

Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.

Henry Steele Commager

And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool.

Hippolyte Taine

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.

Henry Ford

The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.

Helen Slater

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

Hilary Putnam

...while there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics....

Hilaire Belloc

Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was well distributed throughout the community, and thus the family rendered independent.

Heraclitus

A dry soul is wisest and best.