Greek Philosophy Quotes
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Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.
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The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
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Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.
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The way up and the way down are one and the same.
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
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The teachings of Osho, in fact, encompass many religions, but he is not defined by any of them. He is an illuminating speaker on Zen, Taoism, Tibetan Buddhism, Christianity and ancient Greek philosophy... and also a prolific author.
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Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
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Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.
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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
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The Greek philosophies teach us that we are a combination of dark and light, good and evil, and murderer and savior, hmm? And until we know this completely about ourselves we cannot love well, and we cannot forgive ourselves.
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I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
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I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
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We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that Stoicism is appropriate to a cosmopolitan despotism; that stochastic philosophy is an intellectual expression of the Church as an organization; that philosophy since Descartes, or at any rate since Locke, tends to embody the prejudices of the commercial middle class; and that Marxism and Fascism are the philosophies appropriate to the modern industrial state.
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Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted on the walls of prehistoric caves, inscribed in the languages of Egyptian myth, Greek philosophy, Hindu religion, Christian art, our own DNA. Belonging within the circle of mankind's intimate acquaintance ... constant albeit speechless companions, they supplied energies fit to be harnessed or roasted.
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The gift of truth excels all other gifts.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity.
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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
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Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
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Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
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I never thought Greek philosophy could make a damn bit of sense to me. And most of it didn't, but those words just seemed right. 'Love is composed of a single soul, inhabiting two bodies.'" He took her by the shoulders drawing her close. "It rang true for me, in a way nothing else did. Whatever soul I had, Katie, I think I placed it in your keeping twenty years ago. And now, it's as if...every time we kiss, you give a little piece of it back.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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