Philosophy quotes — page 14

Philosophy is the cultivation of the soul.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

Men must tolerate one another.

All life is suffering.

Habit and nature come to completion together and transform with each other.

The Master said: The craftsman who wishes to do his work well must first sharpen his tools.

Certainty is not attained by imitation, but by tasting (direct experience).

This feeling—wonder—belongs especially to the philosopher; philosophy has no other beginning than this.

Unless…either philosophers rule in the cities or those now called kings…philosophize genuinely and adequately…

Every human soul has by nature beheld the things that are.

All human beings by nature desire to know.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good.

After this we should speak of friendship; for it is a kind of virtue, or involves virtue.

Good is to be done and pursued, and evil avoided.

Prudence is right reason applied to action.

There is nothing so beautiful and legitimate as to play the man well and properly.

Good sense is the best distributed thing in the world.

I am, I exist—whenever it is uttered by me, or conceived in the mind, it is necessarily true.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death.

I shall endeavor not to laugh at human actions, nor to weep over them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

We feel and know by experience that we are eternal.

Where there is no law, there is no freedom.

Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.