Top 41 Zeno Quotes
#1. To be virtuous, then, is to live as we were designed to live; it is to live, as Zeno put it, in accordance with nature.18 The Stoics would add that if we do this, we will have a good life.
William B. Irvine
#2. That's the point of Zeno's Paradox, isn't it? Whatever your goal, you're never more than halfway there.
Sam A. Patel
#3. Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
Plutarch
#4. Zeno was concerned with three problems ... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.
Bertrand Russell
#5. The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .
Italo Svevo
#6. When Zeno received news of a shipwreck and heard that all his luggage had been sunk he said, Fortune bids me to be a less encumbered philosopher.
Seneca.
#7. I remember how, in the corporate world, I always knew there was some higher position I could attain, which meant that, like Zeno's arrow, I was guaranteed never to arrive and always to remain dissatisfied.
Pico Iyer
#8. It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." Let there be space between you and the book.
Seneca The Younger
#9. In slow drowning waves the knowledge washed over Cressida, her professor did not think that she was so special after all. He didn't know her father Zeno. Was that it?
Joyce Carol Oates
#10. A line is not made up of points ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.
Aristotle.
#11. To define [Canada] or its literature seems like putting a finger on Zeno's arrow: no sooner do you think you have done it than it has moved on.
M.G. Vassanji
#12. There is an important feature of modern science that is almost completely missing in all the thinkers I have mentioned, from Thales to Plato: none of them attempted to verify or even (aside perhaps from Zeno) seriously to justify their speculations. In
Steven Weinberg
#13. Stalwart Zeno seemed oblivious, that faith in his daughter being alive after more than forty days did not compute with faith that Brett Kincaid would soon be arrested for a crime involving his daughter.
Joyce Carol Oates
#14. Zeno's quote-unquote discovered a loophole in the Trust that smashes through the edict regarding love matches and divorces."
Leta Blake
#15. The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind.
Edward Gibbon
#16. Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
Citium Zeno
#18. That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.
Zeno Of Citium
#19. The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.
Zeno Of Elea
#20. If being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like
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#23. The full analysis of the notions of saying something and understanding what one said inevitably involves a concept which, as I will show in detail, essentially corresponds to the Cartesian idea of thought.
Zeno Vendler
#24. The goal of life is living in agreement with Nature.
Zeno Of Citium
#25. To be in the mind and to be known are the same thing: in this domain esse est percipi.
Zeno Vendler
#26. All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.
Zeno Of Citium
#27. The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.
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#28. We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.
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#30. Steel your sensibilities, so that life shall hurt you as little as possible.
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#31. Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
Citium Zeno
#32. A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.
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#33. No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
Citium Zeno
#34. Love is a God, who cooperates in securing the safety of the city.
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#35. Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.
Zeno Vendler
#36. By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.
Zeno Of Elea
#37. My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the hypothesis of the many, if examined sufficiently in detail, leads to even more ridiculous results than the hypothesis of the One
Zeno Of Elea
#38. But what has been said once can always be repeated.
Zeno Of Elea
#40. No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.
Zeno Of Citium
#41. The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.
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