Sublime

And even that is not all: he ended with the assertion that for every separate person, like ourselves for instance, who believes neither in God nor in his own immortality, the moral law of nature ought to change immediately into the exact opposite of the former religious law, and that egoism, even to the point of evildoing, should not only be permit

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Le rôle du philosophe est de rechercher ce qui subsiste des croyances anciennes sous les changements apparents, et de distinguer ce qui, dans le flot mouvant des opinions, est déterminé par les croyances générales et l'âme de la race.

Justin Martyr (c.100–c.165), who employed the Stoic conception of a divine ‘Reason’ (Logos) pervading all things – partially present in all rational intellects – to explain who the eternal Son of God, incarnate in Jesus, was.

Un philosophe, dans l'Antiquité, c'est quelqu'un qui vit en philosophe, qui mène une vie philosophique. Caton le Jeune, homme d'État du 1er siècle av. J.-C., est un philosophe stoïcien et pourtant il n'a rédigé aucun écrit philosophique.

According to Diogenes, early Western philosophy had two separate branches.1 One branch—he calls it the Italian branch—began with Pythagoras. If we follow through the various successors of Pythagoras, we ultimately come to Epicurus, whose own school of philosophy was a major rival to the Stoic school. The other branch—Diogenes calls it the Ionian br

He believed that every great philosopher actually wrote ‘a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir’ rather than conducting an impersonal search for knowledge. Studying our own moral genealogy cannot help us to escape or transcend ourselves. But it can enable us to see our illusions more clearly and lead a more vital, assertive existence.