110 quotes
The apophthegm "Know thyself" is his.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (200)
Xenophanes was the first person who asserted... that the soul is a spirit.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (200)
Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates; and when the rest said, "We are undone if we are known,"—"But I," said he, "am undone if we are not known."
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (200)
One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger’s breadth of being mad; for if a man walked with his middle finger pointing out, folks would think him mad, but not so if it were his forefinger.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (200)
Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces."
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (200)
Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato’s man." On which account this addition was made to the definition,—"With broad flat nails."
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (200)
Another was, "Watch your opportunity."
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (200)
And while he was Euphorbus, he used to say that he [Pythagoras] had formerly been Aethalides, and that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into whatever plants or animals it pleased.
They also say that God is an animal immortal, rational, perfect, and intellectual in his happiness, unsusceptible of any kind of evil, having a foreknowledge of the universe and of all that is in the universe; however, that he has not the figure of a man; and that he is the creator of the universe, and as it were the Father of all things in common, and that a portion of him pervades everything.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (200)
Just step aside for me to enjoy the sunshine.
Misattributed