We lost because we told ourselves we lost. - Leo Tolstoy
Quotes / By person / Leo Tolstoy Quotes We lost because we told ourselves we lost. - Leo Tolstoy
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. - Plato
Quotes / By person / Plato Quotes At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. - Plato
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato
Quotes / By person / Plato Quotes You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato
Become what you are. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotes / By person / Friedrich Nietzsche's Quotes Become what you are. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly". - Plato
Quotes / By person / Plato Quotes Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly". - Plato
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be. - Leo Tolstoy
Quotes / By person / Leo Tolstoy Quotes When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be. - Leo Tolstoy
Any fool can know. The point is to understand. - Albert Einstein
Quotes / By person / Albert Einstein Quotes Any fool can know. The point is to understand. - Albert Einstein
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein
Quotes / By person / Albert Einstein Quotes Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. - Plato
Quotes / By person / Plato Quotes Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. - Plato
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right - Isaac Asimov
Quotes / By person / Isaac Asimov Quotes Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right - Isaac Asimov
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. - William Shakespear
Quotes / By person / William Shakespear Quotes There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. - William Shakespear , Hamlet
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! - Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotes / By person / Friedrich Nietzsche's Quotes It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! - Friedrich Nietzsche
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. - May Sarton
Quotes / By person / May Sarton's Quotes We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. ― May Sarton
Western philosophy
Education / Philosophy / Western philosophy Pre-Socratic - Ancient - Medieval - Renaissance - Modern ( early modern - late modern ) - Contemporary Western philosophy Western philosophy refers to the philosophical thought and work of the Western world. Historically, the term refers to the philosophical thinking of Western culture, beginning with Greek philosophy of the pre-Socratics such as Thales (c. 624 – c. 546 BC) and Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC), and eventually covering a large area of the globe. The word philosophy itself originated from the Ancient Greek philosophía (φιλοσοφία), literally, "the love of wisdom" (φιλεῖν phileîn, "to love" and σοφία sophía, "wisdom"). Ancient The scope of ancient Western philosophy included the problems of philosophy as they are understood today; but it also included many other disciplines, such as pure mathematics and natural sciences such as physics, astronomy, and biology (Aristotle, for example, wrote on ...