Quotes by Philosopher

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.

Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future

The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

We are convinced by a speaker's good character when their speech makes us trust them. We believe good people more easily and completely than others, especially when there's no definite answer and opinions are split.