Quotes about Philosophy, page 11

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Quote by Aristotel about philosophy

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Quote by Aristotel about philosophy

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Quote by Aristotel about philosophy

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Quote by Aristotel about philosophy

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Quote by Aristotel about philosophy

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Quote by Aristotel about philosophy

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

Quote by Aristotel about philosophy

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Quote by Aristotel about philosophy

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Quote by Aristotel about philosophy

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Quote by Aristotel about philosophy

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.

Quote by Aristotel about philosophy

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy

If there is sin against life, it consists... in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy

Integrity has no need of rules.

Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy