By Makena “I-Like-Philosophy” Behnke
as everyone knows, philosophy is super cool, but super broad, at least when you’re offered that topic to speak about [as Philosophy Editor James did to Makena]. where do you start? well, here’s some quick philosophical quotes and their philosophers–some little things to give us pause.
Plato- “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”
Hippocrates- “Life is short, the art long.”
Isocrates- “It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.”
Lucretius- “So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.”
Origen of Alexandria- “You yourself are even another little world and have within you the sun and the moon and also the stars.”
Socrates- “I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”
Ogyū Sorai- “Mathematicians boast of their achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.”
Ptolemy- “As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.”
Homer- “Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are today. We will never be here again.”
Yang Chu- “Dead people are not concerned whether their bodies are buried in coffins, cremated, dumped in water or in a ditch; nor whether the body is dressed in fine clothes. What matters most is that before death strikes one lives life to the fullest.”
Philosophy Editor: James Zheng
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