Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"Philosophy is the art of being born twice."Suetonius
"What we think, we become."Suetonius
"A man is the creature of his times, and his conduct must be judged in relation to his contemporaries."Horace
"The sound of a bell is not a bell."Horace
"Reflect on yourself, and let your judge be within."Pliny the Younger
"The measure of a person is not their wealth but their character."Pliny the Younger
"The life of the mind is the truest life of all."Pliny the Younger
"The greatest battles are fought within the human heart."Pliny the Younger
"Custom is the guide of all human life."Tacitus
"Those who praise their own times are fools."Tacitus
"The measure of a person is not their wealth but their wisdom."Tacitus
"Philosophy without practice is merely pleasant conversation."Tacitus
"In the flux of events, only virtue remains constant."Ammianus Marcellinus
"The clash of cultures teaches lessons that isolated societies cannot learn."Ammianus Marcellinus
"A person's true wealth lies not in possessions but in knowledge and virtue."Ammianus Marcellinus
"The face of fate reveals itself only to those who study its manifestations carefully."Ammianus Marcellinus
"The philosopher is not afraid of death; he is afraid of living wrongly."Pliny the Elder
"To understand humanity, study the forest, not the trees."Pliny the Elder
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."Cato the Younger
"A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes."Cato the Younger
"Philosophy is the love of wisdom."Cato the Younger
"The interval between a man's discovery of virtue and his practice of it."Livy
"Conviction is the conscience of the mind."Livy
"Philosophy teaches us how to live."Livy
"The mind is the man; the rest merely flesh and blood"Cato the Elder
"The mind of man is like a mirror; it reflects what it contemplates"Cato the Elder
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time"Cato the Elder
"A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes."Horace
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."Horace
"The highest type of man regards the highest idea as his law."Horace