Top 1200 Greek Philosophy Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it.

Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.

Philosophy is the health of the mind.

My philosophy is to make money.

My judicial philosophy is straightforward.

Philosophy has degenerated into ideology.

Philosophy is an act of living.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

We cannot deny that 80 or even 90 percent of the spiritual treasures from the past 3,000 years have come from Europe. There is no other Greek theatre anywhere else in the world. There is no other Shakespeare, Dante or Cervantes.

Even hidden in the most squalid Parisian halls, wrestling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights: in both, a light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

Cooking is a philosophy; it's not a recipe.

Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our world. If schools of journalism knew their business, they would graduate no one who could not render the Greek poets.

I like the concept of teenagers and philosophy.

Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.

My style philosophy is: Be comfortable.

English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.

Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage.

You don't have to have the capitalistic profit motive philosophy.

Science is practical philosophy.

Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

A body in movement is its philosophy.

Slow are the beginnings of philosophy.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.

Philosophy is the art of living.

All work is an act of philosophy.

The best of humanity is philosophy.

It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy

All philosophy is a form of confession.

Philosophy is the highest music.

The Bible affects everybody's life who is a Christian, from the middle class in Europe to the peasant in Africa and Asia. The Bible has affected their lives, but in translation, since they do not read the Bible in the original Greek or Hebrew.

Philosophy is really homesickness.

Believe it or not, philosophy has consequences.

History should be written as philosophy.

My training in music has been very eclectic - as first a flute player from classical chamber music to jazz, Greek, Brazilian and African music to contemporary concert music.

Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most remarkable words to be found in any language.

Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French banks, who for a long time were major creditors for Greece and Greek banks.

Oh, you're in television! That's interesting. No, I mean, the word television is interesting. It's a hybrid, you see: tele- comes from the greek, and -vision comes from the latin. It should have been either "telerama", or "procolvision".

My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it.

Religion is the retarded stepchild of philosophy.

Coaching really is an individual philosophy.

All is well... That's my new philosophy.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

What's my philosophy? In a word, integral.

Philosophy bakes no bread

To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods and heroes may have powers, but they get angry and they do the wrong thing. They are human too.

Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.

Philosophy is everybody's business.

Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we've stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.

Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

Philosophy begins with wonder.

O philosophy, you leader of life.

When I was in my late teens I was already interested in philosophy.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

If we strive for happiness, it's going to be elusive because things constantly happen with human beings that disrupt that happiness. But if you focus on euphoros, the Greek word for "the bearer of goodness," you will be inhabited by the divine source of life.