Philosopher Cicero Quotes

#1. The Roman politician and philosopher Cicero once said: 'Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Ha-Joon Chang

#2. As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established her in the towns and introduced her into homes and forced her to investigate life, ethics, good and evil.

Jostein Gaarder

#3. Undermine a system flawed through overuse of words that are made out to be harmful, when in fact they're just letters, mixed together like every other word.

Colleen Hoover

#4. Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#6. How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#7. There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#9. Unsolved problems are where you'll find opportunity. Energy is one sector with extremely urgent unsolved problems.

Peter Thiel

#10. The prophets preach ... that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.

Matthew Fox

#11. Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after a rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers.

Seneca.

#12. As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#13. There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#14. It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.

Lindsay Duncan

#15. In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#16. Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
I am human, and think nothing human alien to me.

Terence

#17. You ought to go now before she wakes up, Hattie said. She handed her daughter to Pearl. I'm in the floor, she thought.

Ayana Mathis

#18. There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero