philosophy Quotes

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.

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

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

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

Law is mind without reason.

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.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.