This page features a selection of the best quotes by Presocratic philosophers. All of these quotes are real and references are given after each quote. Here are the best quotes by Presocratic philosophers in no particular order: Thales: All things are from water and all things are resolved into water. – as quoted by Aetius in H. Diels, Doxographi Graeci Xenophanes: No man knows, or ever will know, the truth about the gods and about everything I speak of: for even if one chanced to say the complete truth, nevertheless …
The Best Quotes by Plato (Real Quotes with References)
This page features a selection of the best quotes by Plato. All of these quotes are real and references are given after each quote. Here are the best quotes by Plato in no particular order: Meno: How will you enquire, Socrates, into that which you do not know? What will you put forth as the subject of enquiry? And if you find what you want, how will you ever know that this is the thing which you did not know? Socrates: I know, Meno, what you mean; but just see …
The Best Quotes by Socrates (Real Quotes with References)
This page features a selection of the best quotes by Socrates. All of these quotes are real and references are given after each quote. Here are the best quotes by Socrates in no particular order: The unexamined life is not worth living. – as quoted in Plato, Apology, 28A, trans. Benjamin Jowett He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing. – as quoted in Plato, Apology, 23B, trans. Benjamin Jowett I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old …
The Best Quotes by Aristotle (Real Quotes with References)
This page features a selection of the best quotes by Aristotle. All of these quotes are real and references are given after each quote. Here are the best quotes Aristotle in no particular order: All men by nature desire to know. – Metaphysics, 980a1 The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, we do not collectively fail, but every one says …
The Best Quotes on Stoicism (Real Quotes with References)
This page features a selection of the best quotes on Stoicism. All of these quotes are real and references are given after each quote. Here are the best quotes on Stoicism in no particular order: Seneca: It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. What does it matter how much a man has laid up in his safe, or in his warehouse, how large are his flocks and how fat his dividends, if he covets his neighbour’s property, and reckons, …