Quotes About Aristippus

#1. There are moments when you have to take risk, to do crazy things.

Paulo Coelho

#2. If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.

Aristippus

#3. Whoever you are, you've got to start from where you are. If you're a sailor, and only know sailor's language, well, write in it, for God's sake.

Peter Levi

#4. People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

Joel Osteen

#5. But . . ." Dominic floundered around for a bit before pointing at me accusingly. "You said that there's weird shit, but it normally turns out to have a rational explanation."
"It does," said Beverley. "The explanation is a wizard did it.

Ben Aaronovitch

#6. The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.

Aristippus

#7. I followed her to the library, feeling like Princess Leia. Instead of Obi-Wan, this snarky girl was my only hope.

D.R. Perry

#8. The Old Fortress at Tirfang, it had a bad name: witches built it, raised it by magic, infecting even the ordinary materials in which they worked - stone, timber, and slate - with their dark sorceries.

Madeline Howard

#9. The best thing is to possess pleasures without being their slave; not to be devoid of pleasures.

Aristippus

#10. You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says.

Aristippus

#11. The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.

Aristippus

#12. Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.

Robert Burns

#13. Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way
In this bright future you can't forget your past
So dry your tears I say

Bob Marley

#14. The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.

Cyril Connolly

#15. It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.

Aristippus

#16. Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.

Aristippus

#17. Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.

Aristippus

#18. The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.

Charles Caleb Colton

#19. Aristippus said: That those that studied particular sciences, and neglected philosophy, were like Penelope's wooers, that made love to the waiting women.

Francis Bacon

#20. A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible.

Bassam Tibi

#21. Good cheer is no hindrance to a good life.

Aristippus

#22. I do not feign hypotheses.

Isaac Newton