Epictetus vs. Aristotle
Read 20 entries attributed to Epictetus alongside 20 attributed to Aristotle. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Epictetus alongside 20 attributed to Aristotle. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.
Topic labels present in both displayed selections: human nature, philosophy, life, knowledge. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Epictetus, entry #87: "Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind."
Attributed to Aristotle, entry #3: "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Recorded year: 340 BCE.
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Epictetus
50 – 138
Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born into slavery at Hierapolis, Phrygia and lived in Rome until his banishment, after which he spent the rest of his life in Nicopolis in northwestern Greece.
"Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind."
#Epistemology"Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder."
#Epistemology"O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if …"
#Religion"In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and …"
#Human Nature"No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let…"
#Human Nature"When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is …"
#Religion"Yet God hath not only granted these faculties, by which we may bear every event without being depressed or broken by it, but like a good prince and a true fa…"
#Religion"Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle."
#Epistemology"Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater."
#Philosophy"Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these about whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish t…"
#Philosophy"Only the educated are free."
#Human Nature"If the room is smoky, if only moderately, I will stay; if there is too much smoke I will go. Remember this, keep a firm hold on it, the door is always open."
#Philosophy"Let not another's disobedience to Nature become an ill to you; for you were not born to be depressed and unhappy with others, but to be happy with them. And …"
#life"When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move t…"
#language"Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!"
#life"If it is my interest to have a farm, it is my interest to take it away from my neighbour; if it is my interest to have a cloak, it is my interest also to ste…"
#war"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control."
#freedom"Even as bad actors cannot sing alone, but only in chorus: so some cannot walk alone. Man, if thou art aught, strive to walk alone and hold converse with your…"
#knowledge"What wouldst thou be found doing when overtaken by Death? If I might choose, I would be found doing some deed of true humanity, of wide import, beneficent an…"
#power"You are a little soul, carrying a corpse."
#religionAristotle
384 BCE – 322 BCE
Greek philosopher, student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings span philosophy, science, and rhetoric.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
#Philosophy340 BCE
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
#Philosophy340 BCE
"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."
#Politics340 BCE
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
#Ethics340 BCE
"The whole is more than the sum of its parts."
#Philosophy340 BCE
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."
#Human Nature"The essential nature cannot be corporeal, yet it is also clear that this soul is present in a particular bodily part, and this one of the parts having contro…"
#nature"朴素使未受教育的人在面对大众演讲时比受过教育的人更有成效。It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences."
#life"For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought …"
#justice"For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize; they wondered originally at the obvious difficulties, then advanc…"
#wisdom"Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and es…"
#nature"[U]niversal is known according to reason, but that which is particular, according to sense..."
#philosophy"Men ... are easily induced to believe that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody's friend, especially when some one is heard denouncing th…"
#friendship"It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why anyone should have a knowledge of it."
#knowledge"For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing."
#knowledge"Hope is a waking dream."
#hope"...suppose α without weight, but β possessing weight; and let α pass over space γδ, but β in the same time pass over a space γε,—for that which has weight wi…"
#art"The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Aristotle.."
#philosophy"It is not necessary to ask whether soul and body are one, just as it is not necessary to ask whether the wax and its shape are one, nor generally whether the…"
#philosophy"The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing; and therefore he i…"
#nature