Stoic Quotes: Timeless Wisdom for a Fulfilling Life - page 6
Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.
Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.
Leo Strauss
Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.
So I say, Live and let live. That’s my motto. Live and let live. And anyone who can’t go along with that, take him outside and shoot the motherfucker. It’s a simple philosophy, but it’s always worked in our family.
When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands; you must set the regulator. When a man does ill, it is not enough to alter his handiwork, you must regulate his heart.
Augustus William Hare
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
Isaac Newton
Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. Virtue is praised and left to freeze.
[Lat., Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum
Si vis esse aliquis. Probitas laudatur et alget.]
Juvenal
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
I don't think Kant's theory looks bad to people except insofar as they have misunderstood it (for instance, as heartless and ironheaded, or as committed to an absurd metaphysical conception of freedom that violates Kant's own philosophy).
Allen W. Wood
Every artist, writers included, have an ethics and an aesthetics, whether they can formulate them or not. I happen to think that it is good to be able to formulate - it is good to know what you are doing and to be able to talk about it.
Aleksandar Hemon
But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.
J. L. Austin
We must re-center philosophy within our frame of reference which I think is the way to deal with it.
Tariq Ramadan
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.
Terry Eagleton
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.
As the Prussian historian Treitschke later complained, the proponents of free trade in Hamburg had 'in German fashion made out of necessity not just a virtue but a theory'.
Richard J. Evans
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
