Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, ‘both you and your house.
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There is a constant suspicion that headache and giddiness are to be ascribed to philosophy, and hence all practising or making trial of virtue in the higher sense is absolutely stopped; for a man is always fancying that he is being made ill, and is in constant anxiety about the state of his body.
Anxiety / giddiness / headache / philosophy / virtue
Philosophy begins in wonder.
Men of Athens, I honor and I love you, but I will obey the god rather than you and as long as I draw breath and am able, I shall not cease to practice philosophy, to exhort you and in my usual way to point out to any one of you whom I happen to meet.
Athens / God / philosophy
Like mythology, Greek philosophy has a tendency to personify ideas. And the Sophist is not merely a teacher of rhetoric for a fee of one or fifty drachmae (Crat.), but an ideal of ‘s in which the falsehood of all mankind is reflected.
falsehood / mythology / philosophy / rhetoric / Sophist
If it is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, as it had no willing association with the body in life, but avoided it and gathered itself together by itself and always practiced this, which is no other than practicing philosophy in the right way, in fact, training to die easily. Or is this not training for death?
body / death / philosophy / pure
Rhetoric was to be surveyed from the standpoint of philosophy.
The of is one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what calls in one place the “philosophy of human affairs;” but more frequently Political or Social Science.
I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
fear / Law / philosophy
Men were first led to the study of philosophy, as indeed they are today, by wonder.