philosophy Quotes

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

For good is simple, evil manifold.

There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.

The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.