4th century BC · Skopia

Showing 112 quotes from the 4th century BC

Philosophical dialogue · Philosophical literature

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Plato, Theaetetus · 400 BC

★ 9.7

Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literature

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Plato, Apology · 399 BC

★ 9.7

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Tao Te Ching · 400 BC

★ 9.2

Philosophical literature

All men by nature desire to know.

Metaphysics · 322 BC

★ 9.2

Political literature · Philosophical literature

Man is by nature a political animal.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 8.7

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

Plato, Republic · 375 BC

★ 8.3

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

Democracy passes into despotism.

Plato, Republic · 375 BC

★ 8.3

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

For our discussion is about no ordinary matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

Plato, Republic · 375 BC

★ 8.2

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

For what should a man live, if not for the pleasures of discourse?

Phaedrus · 370 BC

★ 8.2

Courtroom speech · Speech · Philosophical literature

I know that I do not know.

Plato, Apology · 399 BC

★ 8.1

Political literature · Philosophical literature

No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 8.1

Philosophical literature

One swallow does not make a spring.

The Nicomachean Ethics · 322 BC

★ 8.1

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

What I say is that "just" or "right" means nothing but what is to the interest of the stronger party.

Plato, Republic · 375 BC

★ 8.1

Political literature · Philosophical literature

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 8.1

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

Behold! human beings living in an underground den... Like ourselves... They see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave.

Plato, Republic · 375 BC

★ 8.0

Philosophical literature

We learn an art or craft by doing the things that we shall have to do when we have learnt it.

The Nicomachean Ethics · 322 BC

★ 7.7

Philosophical literature

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

The Nicomachean Ethics · 322 BC

★ 7.7

Political literature · Philosophical literature

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 7.2

Philosophical literature

This only is denied even to God, The power to make what has been done undone.

Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics · 350 BC

★ 7.1

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Tao Te Ching · 400 BC

★ 5.8

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