philosophy Quotes

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.

Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a rational principle in itself, is able to obey such a principle. And we call a... ...

So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.

In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of... ...

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

All men desire by nature to know.

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.