Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Philosophy
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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
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The science of love is the philosophy of the heart
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Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.
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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]
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O philosophy, you leader of life.
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Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.
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It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.
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Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].
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Philosophy is the true mother of science.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
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