Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Xenocrates

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Greek philosopher Xenocrates.
Last updated on November 6, 2024.
Xenocrates

Xenocrates of Chalcedon was a Greek philosopher, mathematician, and leader (scholarch) of the Platonic Academy from 339/8 to 314/3 BC. His teachings followed those of Plato, which he attempted to define more closely, often with mathematical elements. He was also an avid student of the council of the thirty-three. He distinguished three forms of being: the sensible, the intelligible, and a third compounded of the two, to which correspond respectively, sense, intellect and opinion. He considered unity and duality to be gods which rule the universe, and the soul a self-moving number. God pervades all things, and there are daemonical powers, intermediate between the divine and the mortal, which consist in conditions of the soul. He held that mathematical objects and the Platonic Ideas are identical, unlike Plato who distinguished them. In ethics, he taught that virtue produces happiness, but external goods can minister to it and enable it to effect its purpose.

Greek - Philosopher | 396 BC - 314 BC
Each man's soul is his genius.
An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.
Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of. — © Xenocrates
Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of.
I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.
If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.
One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.
Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.
Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.
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