The Ancient Philosophers





"...although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything...,
I am better off than he is - for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows"




"Everything is made of the infinite boundless."


"Everything is made of air."



"But whoever is perplexed and wonders thinks himself ignorant."



"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil."


"Everything is atoms and empty space"



"The main basic principle of the skeptic system is that of opposing to every proposition an equal proposition..."



"If we only realize what is and what is not our own, we can live peacefully, free of pain."



"the principal disturbance in the minds of men arises because they think that these celestial bodies are blessed and immortal"



"...the logos is common to all."
"Everything is made of Fire."



"It is and must be."



"Like ourselves ... [the cave prisoners] see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another..."



"Man is the measure of all things."



"Everything is made of numbers."



"Everything is made of water."



"All is one; motion is illusory."


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