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Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.
Oct 1, 2025
One could say that what differentiates ancient from modern philosophy is the fact that, in ancient philosophy, it was not only Chrysippus or Epicurus who, just because they had developed a philosophical discourse, were considered philosophers. Rather, every person who lived according to the precepts of Chrysippus or Epicurus was every bit as much a philosopher as they.
Philosophy - reduced, as we have seen, to philosophical discourse - develops from this point on in a different atmosphere and environment from that of ancient philosophy. In modern university philosophy, philosophy is obviously no longer a way of life, or a form of life - unless it be the form of life of a professor of philosophy.
I hope to bring ancient philosophy and new scientific thinking together, to provide a new perspective of nature, especially the relationship between nature and man.
PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.
The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.
Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
The scriptures, for example, discredit an ancient philosophy that has come back into vogue in our day-the philosophy of Korihor that there are no absolute moral standards, that "every man prospers according to his genius, and that every man conquers according to his strength; and whatsoever a man does is no crime" and "that when a man is dead, that is the end thereof".
The gift of truth excels all other gifts.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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