Greek Philosopher Sayings

#1. The earliest Greek philosopher's criticized Homer's mythology because the gods resembled mortals too much and were just as egotistic and treacherous.

Jostein Gaarder

#2. Like many of the ideas that mattered in the American Revolution, extraterrestrials got their start in antiquity. The Greek philosopher Epicurus speculated that the universe must be infinite, eternal and abounding in 'worlds' just like our own.

Matthew Stewart

#3. The Greek philosopher Epictetus said, First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Laini Taylor

#4. The Greek philosopher Epictetus recognised this two thousand years ago when he wrote: 'What disturbs and alarms man are not the things but his opinions and fancies about the things.

Robert Harris

#5. There was a Greek philosopher who taught that, of all things, not to have been born is the sweetest state. But I believe sleep is the sweetest state. You're dead, yet alive. There's no sensation so exquisite.

Joyce Carol Oates

#6. 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

#7. The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change ... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.

Philip K. Dick

#8. Epictetus, a Greek philosopher, once wrote, Circumstances do not make the man. They merely reveal him to himself.

Brian Tracy

#9. Epicurus (341-270 B.C.) was the last major Greek philosopher of the classical era to make significant original contributions to the study of language, developing a socio-anthropological theory of the origin of language.

Richard E. McDorman

#10. If you wish to be a writer; write!
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Epictetus (50-120) Greek philosopher.

Epictetus

#11. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Simonides

#12. Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them have proved to be, not only because he was smarter but because he took Aristotle more seriously.

Allan Bloom

#13. My wife, Tania, is very big on dogs, so I'm always paying out to animal charities.

Eric Idle

#14. A dork is a whale's penis.

Jill Shalvis

#15. And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'

Clement Of Alexandria

#16. Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#17. Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping.

Howard Rheingold

#18. I was looking for a job, david. I was walking up and down that bloody street and I had gone into a lot of stores. I remember I was really cold and it was really windy and then Ijust found myself standing on the top step. Then I went in, nothing special.

P.B. Morlen

#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. The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.

Paul Feig

#21. I was one of the first artists to have a YouTube account, if not the first. I joined two months after the site launched.

Soulja Boy

#22. Cynicism lost and hope won. For the first time, the government of Quebec will be led by a woman.

Pauline Marois

#23. I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#24. As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life.

Diogenes Laertius

#25. I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

Mark Twain

#26. In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or poet. His name never occurs in a single inscription, and it is never found in a single piece of private correspondence. Zero! Zip references!

Bart D. Ehrman

#27. No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Socrates

#28. 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