philosophy Quotes

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical... ...

But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.

[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds... ...

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

Therefore, poetry is more philosophical and serious than history, because its statements are more universal, while history's are specific.

It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.