philosophy Quotes

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.