Thinkers of the Ancient World
Aristotle
384 BCE – 322 BCE
Philosophyquotes
Greek philosopher, student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings span philosophy, science, and rhetoric.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Socrates
469 BCE – 398 BCE
Literaturequotes
Socrates was an ancient Greek philosopher from Classical Athens, perhaps the first Western moral philosopher, and a major inspiration on his student Plato, who largely founded the tradition of Western philosophy. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and is known mainly through the posthumous accounts of classical writers, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. These accounts are written as dialogues, in which Socrates and his interlocutors examine a subject in the style of question and answer; they gave rise to the Socratic dialogue literary genre.
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Thucydides
500 BCE – 420 BCE
Literaturequotes
Thucydides was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" by those who accept his claims to have applied strict standards of impartiality and evidence-gathering and analysis of cause and effect, without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work.
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
Herodotus
483 BCE – 424 BCE
Historyquotes
Herodotus was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the Histories, a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars, among other subjects such as the rise of the Achaemenid dynasty of Cyrus. He has been described as "The Father of History", a title conferred on him by the ancient Roman orator Cicero.
From great wrongdoing there are great punishments from the gods.
Anaxagoras
499 BCE – 427 BCE
Sciencequotes
Translation and Commentary from John Burnet's Early Greek Philosophy.
Archytas
430 BCE – 345 BCE
Philosophyquotes
Aeschines
389 BCE – 314 BCE
Politicsquotes
Aeschines was a Greek statesman and one of the ten Attic orators.
Euripides
480 BCE – 406 BCE
Literaturequotes
Euripides was an ancient Greek playwright renowned for his tragic plays such as 'Medea' and 'Antigone'.
Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.
Words from January 3
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
Aristotle
384 BCE
"统治者应该是那些有能力统治得最好的人。They should rule who are able to rule best."
Aristotle
384 BCE
"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
Socrates
469 BCE
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
Socrates
469 BCE
"Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action."
Thucydides
500 BCE
"I am more afraid of our own blunders than of the enemy's devices."
Thucydides
500 BCE