Philosophy quotes — page 24

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

Your silence will not protect you.

Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

The soul has health and sickness just as the body has health and sickness.

The health of the soul is for its traits to be traits by which it does good, fine, and noble actions.

The excellent city is the one in which people cooperate toward the things by which true happiness is attained.

Happiness is the good desired for its own sake; it is never desired for the sake of something else.

The statesman and the king are like the physician: they seek the health of the city as the physician seeks the health of the body.

Political science inquires into the kinds of voluntary actions and ways of life, and into the happiness that is the end of the human being.

Suppose a person were created at once, fully mature, but with sight veiled and limbs outstretched so that he touched nothing; he would affirm his own existence without affirming any body.

The Necessary Existent has no cause; rather, It is the cause of all that is possible.

The knowledge of anything that has causes is not complete unless it is known through its causes.

The soul is a substance; it is not a body, nor is it impressed in a body as a form in matter in the way of bodily forms.

The first of intelligibles is the grasp of existence; from it the mind proceeds to the necessary and the possible.

Prophecy is a perfection of the human intellect joined to a power of imagination that receives and expresses what the intellect knows.

Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not in health, and the means by which health is likely to be lost and restored.

Wisdom is the companion of the Law and its milk-sister.

The Law has obliged us to reflect upon existing things by means of the intellect, and to seek knowledge of them from that perspective.

If the apparent sense of a scriptural text conflicts with demonstration, that apparent sense admits of allegorical interpretation.

The Law has urged us to observe beings and directed us to seek knowledge of them by means of demonstration.

To deny that things have natures and that from similar natures similar effects follow is to abolish reason and science together.

Assent is of three kinds: rhetorical, dialectical, and demonstrative; people differ in nature as to which kind persuades them.

The connection between what is usually believed to be a cause and what is believed to be an effect is not necessary; each of the two has its own individuality.

Sense-data are not a secure foundation; the eye sees the star as small, yet demonstration shows it larger than the earth.