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“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

“The whole is more than the sum of its parts.”

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Book:Aristotle's criticisms of Plato

Source: Aristotle's criticisms of Plato

“The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.”

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Book:Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

Source: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

“In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle.”

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Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.”

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Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.”

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Author:Virgil

“Not possessing definite geographical boundaries, at least in the East - its distinction from Asia is problematic, considering that two large countries, Russia and Turkey, stretch between the two continents - , Europe, from the beginning, has defined itself from the perspective of the constitutive specificity of its philosophical principles: the freedom of the Greek cities as opposed to the Asian despotic regimes. Although these principles were often contradicted and reversed into their opposite, the idea of Europe is inseparable from them.”

“Plotinus, when he thinks about mind or intellect, the Greek word is 'nous', he thinks about something that's very different, it's much more elevated and special, more abstract, you might say more philosophical than the very broad range of mental events that we talk about in contemporary philosophy of mind.”

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Author:Peter Adamson

“Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.”

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Author:Jan Peter Balkenende

“The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.”

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Author:Ferdinand de Saussure

“The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their gods were good, just magnificent.”

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Author:Margaret Visser

“Man is the measure of all things.”

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Author:Protagoras

“Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place as the first philosophical discipline and the introduction to philosophy. Therefore he is called the First Teacher.”

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Author:Ibn Khaldun