Ancient Philosopher Quotes

#1. On every hand we observe a truly wise practice, in education, in morals, and in the arts of life, the embodied wisdom of many an ancient philosopher.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

Charles Dickens

#3. It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps might have taken occasion to repeat it, that a good face is a letter of recommendation.

Joseph Addison

#4. According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

Moliere

#5. Do not lose heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. The situations depicted in the Book of Changes are the primary data of life
what happens to everybody, every day, and what is simple and easy to understand.

Hellmut Wilhelm

#7. Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.

Samuel West

#9. I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

Shan Sa

#10. The capacity for talking together constituted the foundation for democracy, far more fundamental than voting. As one ancient Greek philosopher noted, "When voting started, democracy ended.

William Isaacs

#11. Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

Bertrand Russell

#12. I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

Juan Gris

#13. Many Years before without the New Technologies Life was more Peaceful and Simpler.

Jan Jansen

#14. The more you choose to focus on the positive, the more positive will come into focus. The choice is yours.

Charles F. Glassman

#15. Careful. We don't want to learn from this.

Bill Watterson

#16. Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public pure cold water.

Jean Sibelius

#17. The ancient study of alchemy is concerned with making the Philosopher's Stone, a legendary substance with astonishing powers. The Stone will transform any metal into pure gold. It also produces the Elixir of Life, which will make the drinker immortal. There

J.K. Rowling

#18. Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.

Hu Shih

#19. Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it.

S. Jay Olshansky

#20. With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#21. Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.

Peter Singer

#22. Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, "The wise man is always similar to himself." -

Elizabeth Gilbert

#23. I do realise that talk of natural kinds dates back to Aristotle, but I'd better not say too much about ancient philosophers lest I be convicted of practicing history of philosophy without a license.

Hilary Kornblith

#24. I think genre rules should be porous, if not nonexistent.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#25. The people are difficult to govern because of the (excessive) agency of their superiors (in governing them).

Lao-Tzu

#26. I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

George Bernard Shaw

#27. An extraordinarily rare ability is in your possession. Hone the skills so you effectively utilize your gift. As we speak and as you wile away your time, the aswang is preparing to strike again. Lives are at stake!

L.Z.Marie

#28. Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.

Patrick Stump

#29. Laozi was an ancient Chinese philosopher. According to Chinese tradition, Laozi lived in the 6th century BC, however many historians contend that Laozi

Lao-Tzu

#30. The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.

Meryl Streep

#31. Did you hear the story of Socrates? He was a philosopher in ancient Greece, so they killed him.

Troy DeNuthe

#32. The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another person is an exciting mental experience.

Nicole Kidman

#33. There is a point in every philosophy at which the "conviction" of the philosopher appears on the scene; or, to put it in the words of an ancient mystery: adventavit asinus, / pulcher et fortissimus. (Translation: The ass arrives, beautiful and most brave.)

Friedrich Nietzsche