Philosophy Quotes

"To walk across a room, you must accomplish the impossible—traverse an infinite number of points."

"If being were many, each would need boundaries to be distinct; but what provides these boundaries?"

"The infinite regress revealed by the dichotomy proves that motion, as commonly understood, is impossible."

"The many implies boundaries; boundaries imply separation; separation is impossible—therefore, the many cannot exist."

"The arrow moves nowhere; it is somewhere at each moment; therefore, motion is an illusion."

"Being cannot have quantity; if it has quantity, it has parts; if it has parts, it is divisible; if divisible, it is not truly being."

"What moves must move in a space; a space that moves is contradictory; therefore, nothing moves."

"The arrow at rest is the arrow in motion—the difference is merely conceptual, not actual."

"Plurality leads to infinite regress; unity stands alone, logically secure."

"The stadium, the dichotomy, the arrow, the tortoise—all reveal the same hidden truth: motion is impossible."

"Every apparent motion conceals an infinite number of impossible tasks."

"Plurality is impossible because each part would require a boundary, which requires another boundary, infinitely."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"It is an irony that Socrates, one of the founders of Western philosophy, chose never to write anything."

"The unexamined life, I say, is not, and cannot possibly be, lived by a human being."

"Wonder is the beginning of all philosophy."

"Philosophy seeks to answer the questions that burn within the heart."

"Philosophy begins in wonder and ends in understanding."

"Timmy!"

"The virtues are mean states between vices."

"To perceive is to suffer."

"The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities."

"Anger is a response to felt injury."

"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meanwhile within man is the soul of the whole."

"The soul of man is infinite and never dies."

"Nothing is by accident. It is all design."

"The supreme good is worthy of the name good only insofar as it is the highest human good."

"Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion."

"Nothing exists or happens by chance, only by necessity and nature."

"It is part of probability that many improbable things will happen."