philosophy Quotes

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

Art takes nature as its model.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

Every realm of nature is marvelous.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply evil, for instance malice, shamelessness, envy, and, of actions, adultery, theft, murder. All these and similar actions and... ...

Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.