
Top 10 Old Philosophers Quotes
#1. Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians, Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies.
Thomas Hobbes
#2. The recipe for a long, happy life:
consult with old philosophers and young doctors,
consort with old friends and young women.
Arthur C. Clarke
#3. Somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.
Brandon Sanderson
#4. Like two old philosophers, Ashvin and James spoke of the ruin of their lives, their unfulfilled needs, their unanswered prayers and ultimately they were seduced by the phantom call to death by suicide its science, its poetry, its violence, its art.
Peter Akinti
#5. I started to investigate and unearth an old faith which for thousands of years we philosophers used to build on as the safest of all foundations - which we built on again and again although every previous structure fell in: I began to undermine our faith in morals . But ye do not understand me? -
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. Young children and old ladies have inspired me more than poets and philosophers.
Marty Rubin
#7. Do but observe our grim philosophers that are perpetually beating their brains on knotty subjects, and for the most part you'll find them grown old before they are scarcely young. And
Erasmus
#8. I think our natural disposition as humans is to plod along until we get old and stop. But with social media, we've created a stage for constant artificial high drama.
Jon Ronson
#9. Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
H.P. Lovecraft
#10. It was not the philosophers and the prophets who taught us to believe in life after death; all they did was give form and spiritual content to an instinctive perception as old as man himself.
Muhammad Asad
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