existence Quotes

The soul is the form of the body

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

Love is the cause of unity in all things.

If there were no soul, or no mind within the soul to count, then time couldn't exist. Time is something that depends on change, and change might exist without a soul, but without a counter, no 'time' as a measurable... ...

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there... ...

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good... ...