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Welcome dear readers and citizens of erevollution, this time I’m going to write little about philosophy, philosophers and some quotes from famous once.
What is philosophy? It can’t be defined this easily but in overall it is a study that attempts to discover the fundamental principles of the sciences, the arts, and the world that the sciences and arts deal with; Philosophy has many branches that explore principles of specific areas, such as knowledge ( epistemology ), reasoning ( logic ), beingin general ( metaphysics), beauty ( aesthetics ), and human conduct ( ethics ).
There are lot of famous and brilliant philosophers and I’ll list only five of them in this article, about who they were and what they thought (by their quotes).
Socrates
The object of the studies of the Athenian philosopher Socrates (469-399) was interested in ethics. It was his axiom that no one would knowingly do a bad thing. So knowledge was important, because it resulted in good behavior. If we are to believe his student Plato, Socrates was always asking people about what they knew, and invariably they had to admit that they did not really understand what was meant by words like courage, friendship, love etc. Socrates was never without critics. The comic poet Aristophanes ridiculed him in The clouds, and when his pupil Alcibiades had committedhigh treason, Socrates' position became very difficult. He was forced to drink hemlock after a charge that he had corrupted the youth. Among his students were
Antisthenes, Plato and Xenophon.
Quotes:
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I knownothing.
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
By all means marry: if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy;if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
To find yourself, think for yourself.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God willbe like Him.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little weunderstand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what youdesire to appear.
He who is not contented with what he has,would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Plato
The Athenian philosopher Plato (427-347) is usually called a pupil of Socrates, but his ideas are no less inspired by Parmenides. Plato accepted the world of the phenomena as a mere shadow of the real world of the ideas. When we observe a horse, we recognize what it is because our soul remembers the idea of the horse from the time before our birth. In Plato's political philosophy, only wise men who understand the dual nature of reality are fit to rule the country. He made three voyages to Syracuse to establish his ideal state, both times without lasting results.
Plato's hypothesis that our soul was once in a better place and now lives in a fallen world made it easy to combine platonic philosophy and Christianity, which accounts for the larity of Platonism in Late Antiquity. One element,
however, was not acceptable: the idea of platonic love - a homosexual relation with pedagogical aspects.
Quotes:
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; thereal tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Love is a serious mental disease.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly,while bad people will find a way around the laws.
He was a wise man who invented God.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings tothe mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
You can discover more about a personin an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Aristotle
Plato's most famous student was the Macedonian scientist Aristotle of Stagira (384-322). After the death of his master, he studied biology and accepted a position as teacher of the Macedonian crown prince Alexander at Mieza. When the Macedonians subdued Greece, Aristotle founded a school at Athens. Most of his writings are lost; what remains are his lecture notes, which were rediscovered in the first century BCE. During the last decades, scholars have started to re-examine the fragments of the lost works, which has led to important changes in our understanding of Aristotle's philosophy. However, the accepted view remains that he replaced his master's speculations with a more down-to-earth philosophy. His main works are the Prior Analytics(in which he described the rules of logic), the Physics, the Animal History, the Rhetorics, the Poetics, the Metaphysics, the Nicomachean Ethics, and the Politics. All these books have become clics, and it is not exaggerated to say that Aristotle is the most influential philosopher of all ages and the founder of modern science
Quotes
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act,but a habit.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain athought without accepting it.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It isthe greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aimand end of human existence.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him whoconquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
What is a friend? A single souldwelling in two bodies.
Pythagoras
Pythagoras of was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and hasbeen credited as the founder of the movement called Pythageorism. Most of the information about Pythagoras was written down centuries after he
lived, so very little reliable information is known about him. He was born on the island of Samos, and traveled, visiting Egypt and Greece, and maybe India, and in 520 BC returned to Samos. Around 530BC, he moved to Croton, in Magna Graecia, and there established some kind of school or guild. Pythagoras made influential contributions to philosophy and religion in the late 6th century BC. He is often revered as a great mathematician and scientist and is
best known for the Pythagorean theorem which bears his name. However, because legend and obfuscation cloud his work even more than that of the other pre-Socratic philosophers, one can give only a tentative account of his teachings, and some have questioned whether he contributed much to mathematics or natural philosophy. Many of the accomplishments credited to Pythagoras may actually have been accomplishments of his colleagues and successors. Some accounts mention that the philosophy ociated with Pythagoras was related to mathematics and that numbers were important. It was said that he was the first man to call himself a philosopher, or lover of wisdom, and Pythagorean ideas exercised a marked influence on Plato, and through him, allof Western philosophy.
Quotes
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is musicin the spacing of the spheres.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.No man is free who cannot control himself.
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.Above all things reverence thyself.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of youas they please.
The oldest, shortest words — "yes" and "no"— are those which require the most thought.
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fitfor fre.
Reason is immortal, all else mortal.
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
Silence is better than unmeaning words.
Epicurus
(one of my favorites)
We live happiest when we are free from the pains of life, and a virtuous life is the best way to obtain this goal. This is, in a nuts, the view of the Samian philosopher Epicurus (342-271). In his opinion, weare unable to understand the gods, who may or may not have created this world but are in any case not really interested in mankind. Nor do we know life after death - if there is an existence at all after our bodies have decomposed. Therefore, we must not speculate about gods and afterlife. In Antiquity, Epicurism was the most lar of all philosophical schools, a larity which it partially owed to the fact that its founder had explained his thoughts in several maxims, which even the illiterate could remember. Predictably, Christian philosophers attacked Epicurus' ideas about the afterlife and divine providence.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not;remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death isnot here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as theconfident knowledge that they will help us.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationshipseveryday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he hasthe power to obtain by himself.
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know theydo not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quicklyhave perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Nothing is enough for the man to whomenough is too little.
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What is philosophy? It can’t be defined this easily but in overall it is a study that attempts to discover the fundamental principles of the sciences, the arts, and the world that the sciences and arts deal with; Philosophy has many branches that explore principles of specific areas, such as knowledge ( epistemology ), reasoning ( logic ), beingin general ( metaphysics), beauty ( aesthetics ), and human conduct ( ethics ).
There are lot of famous and brilliant philosophers and I’ll list only five of them in this article, about who they were and what they thought (by their quotes).
Socrates
The object of the studies of the Athenian philosopher Socrates (469-399) was interested in ethics. It was his axiom that no one would knowingly do a bad thing. So knowledge was important, because it resulted in good behavior. If we are to believe his student Plato, Socrates was always asking people about what they knew, and invariably they had to admit that they did not really understand what was meant by words like courage, friendship, love etc. Socrates was never without critics. The comic poet Aristophanes ridiculed him in The clouds, and when his pupil Alcibiades had committedhigh treason, Socrates' position became very difficult. He was forced to drink hemlock after a charge that he had corrupted the youth. Among his students were
Antisthenes, Plato and Xenophon.
Quotes:
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I knownothing.
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
By all means marry: if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy;if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
To find yourself, think for yourself.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God willbe like Him.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little weunderstand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what youdesire to appear.
He who is not contented with what he has,would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Plato
The Athenian philosopher Plato (427-347) is usually called a pupil of Socrates, but his ideas are no less inspired by Parmenides. Plato accepted the world of the phenomena as a mere shadow of the real world of the ideas. When we observe a horse, we recognize what it is because our soul remembers the idea of the horse from the time before our birth. In Plato's political philosophy, only wise men who understand the dual nature of reality are fit to rule the country. He made three voyages to Syracuse to establish his ideal state, both times without lasting results.
Plato's hypothesis that our soul was once in a better place and now lives in a fallen world made it easy to combine platonic philosophy and Christianity, which accounts for the larity of Platonism in Late Antiquity. One element,
however, was not acceptable: the idea of platonic love - a homosexual relation with pedagogical aspects.
Quotes:
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; thereal tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Love is a serious mental disease.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly,while bad people will find a way around the laws.
He was a wise man who invented God.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings tothe mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
You can discover more about a personin an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Aristotle
Plato's most famous student was the Macedonian scientist Aristotle of Stagira (384-322). After the death of his master, he studied biology and accepted a position as teacher of the Macedonian crown prince Alexander at Mieza. When the Macedonians subdued Greece, Aristotle founded a school at Athens. Most of his writings are lost; what remains are his lecture notes, which were rediscovered in the first century BCE. During the last decades, scholars have started to re-examine the fragments of the lost works, which has led to important changes in our understanding of Aristotle's philosophy. However, the accepted view remains that he replaced his master's speculations with a more down-to-earth philosophy. His main works are the Prior Analytics(in which he described the rules of logic), the Physics, the Animal History, the Rhetorics, the Poetics, the Metaphysics, the Nicomachean Ethics, and the Politics. All these books have become clics, and it is not exaggerated to say that Aristotle is the most influential philosopher of all ages and the founder of modern science
Quotes
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act,but a habit.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain athought without accepting it.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It isthe greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aimand end of human existence.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him whoconquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
What is a friend? A single souldwelling in two bodies.
Pythagoras
Pythagoras of was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and hasbeen credited as the founder of the movement called Pythageorism. Most of the information about Pythagoras was written down centuries after he
lived, so very little reliable information is known about him. He was born on the island of Samos, and traveled, visiting Egypt and Greece, and maybe India, and in 520 BC returned to Samos. Around 530BC, he moved to Croton, in Magna Graecia, and there established some kind of school or guild. Pythagoras made influential contributions to philosophy and religion in the late 6th century BC. He is often revered as a great mathematician and scientist and is
best known for the Pythagorean theorem which bears his name. However, because legend and obfuscation cloud his work even more than that of the other pre-Socratic philosophers, one can give only a tentative account of his teachings, and some have questioned whether he contributed much to mathematics or natural philosophy. Many of the accomplishments credited to Pythagoras may actually have been accomplishments of his colleagues and successors. Some accounts mention that the philosophy ociated with Pythagoras was related to mathematics and that numbers were important. It was said that he was the first man to call himself a philosopher, or lover of wisdom, and Pythagorean ideas exercised a marked influence on Plato, and through him, allof Western philosophy.
Quotes
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is musicin the spacing of the spheres.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.No man is free who cannot control himself.
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.Above all things reverence thyself.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of youas they please.
The oldest, shortest words — "yes" and "no"— are those which require the most thought.
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fitfor fre.
Reason is immortal, all else mortal.
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
Silence is better than unmeaning words.
Epicurus
(one of my favorites)
We live happiest when we are free from the pains of life, and a virtuous life is the best way to obtain this goal. This is, in a nuts, the view of the Samian philosopher Epicurus (342-271). In his opinion, weare unable to understand the gods, who may or may not have created this world but are in any case not really interested in mankind. Nor do we know life after death - if there is an existence at all after our bodies have decomposed. Therefore, we must not speculate about gods and afterlife. In Antiquity, Epicurism was the most lar of all philosophical schools, a larity which it partially owed to the fact that its founder had explained his thoughts in several maxims, which even the illiterate could remember. Predictably, Christian philosophers attacked Epicurus' ideas about the afterlife and divine providence.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not;remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death isnot here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as theconfident knowledge that they will help us.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationshipseveryday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he hasthe power to obtain by himself.
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know theydo not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quicklyhave perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Nothing is enough for the man to whomenough is too little.
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delete the part for aristotle Greeks may get angry at you and don t fight anymore
where is the Avicenna ? 
@el Macedonico I m Just writing historical facts, that s not my opinion:d
@Lich King I may mention him in later articles, well I ll write about eastern philospohers
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o7 I like the quotes most
Yeh part I are Greeks, part II will be philosophers from eastern part of the globe
All greeks!!!Just to remind someone s home 
so you actually know many historical facts about Greece and Macedonia and you call us FYROM? where is the logic here?
Plato s quotes are all fake. You found them on brainy quote. http://www.mesacc.edu/~davpy35701/text/plato-things-not-said.html have a nice day.
Ofcourse I don t know many historical facts about foreign countrys but I don t understan why you asking that question to me? Antimon, I don t know what exactly the person said or if that person even existed I wasn t there I quoted from different sources and no..i didn t use that website
Antimon, I don t know what exactly the person said or if that person even existed I wasn t there I quoted from different sources and no..i didn t use that website
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@el Macedonico, todays Macedonia and ancient macedonia has same connection as Turkey has with with Hittites and Troy,
or Serbs with Vinca. Today Makedonians are slavs, you might hate it or like it, its irrelevant.
Aristotel was Greek, so was Aleksandar Makedonski. And if you claim to be macedonaian, you might
as well claim to be greek. But fact is you are related to ancient macedonia as much as Helen of Troy i
s related to Sulejman the Great.
btw, im sorry to my Makedonian friends and slavic brothers, dont me ashamed of who you are.
Just look for example at Turks, they know they are not oldest civilisation in area of today turkey,
and they dont need to be to be proud of who they are and where they come from.
Im sorry if someone got offended by truth, im proud of who im , so maybe i just dont understand
why are some of you ashamed of who you are...
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persian empire www.erevollution.com/fa/article/7537
@TopSecret today Macedonians are actually mix from slavs and ancient macedonians, and Alexander the Great had ancient macedonian father and greek mother but its a fact that ancient Macedonia and Greece were totaly different and he was actually fighting against greeks.
Epicuros is one of my favourites too: god is not a threat, death is not a concern, good is easy to withstand, bad is easy to tolerate
Άφοβον ο θεός,
ανύποπτον ο θάνατος•
και ταγαθόν μεν εύκτητον,
το δε δεινόν ευεκκαρτέρητον.
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ASP, so your logic is simple, just because you live in area of ancient macedonia is that you are their descendent and have right to take their history as yours?
well in your own words, if you are mix of slavs and peoples that lived in that area, than you are half serb (due to Serbian tribes colonizing that part of balkan and your language is proff of it) , and people who lived there before slavs, but also people who came there after slavs, like albanians and turks?
So you see, in your own words, you cant be macedonian no more than serb, turk or any other nation that at some point in history lived in that area of balkan.
And again, in your own wicked way, serbs should be decendends of vinca culture, oldest civilization in balkan and one of oldest in europe, just because that ancient civilization lived in area of today serbia.
Your claim to be descendent of macedonians is laughable, as other than area that you live in, there is no single prof that could work in your favour. You are more of serb or bulgars than ancient Macedonians . Its your (your nation ) problem to be ashamed of who you are, so they are fabricating history .
top secret you are very mistaken. Just read what aristotle says. Plus serbs are not worth to be mentioned. They have nothing to do with Macedonia
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@macedonico, all i see is you guys trying to prove that macedonians are not greeks, and even if that would be truth , that doenst prove that today makedonians are decendends of ancient macedonians. And yes, i know that at that time, rest of greece was looking at macedonia as outisider but still not like persians or the way they seen other barbarians . And what i said about serbia is that serbs live on area of ancient vincans, that doenst mean we are direct descendants, nor turks are Hittites even tho Hittites lived in today area of turkey.
Here is just one reason why Macedonians ware greeks. What language was main language after Alexander the Great ?
If he wasnt or didnt consider him Greek, why after his conquest would Greek language and custom been spread around than known world?
So again, you are trying to say macedonians are not greek, but you should first prove that you are macedonians. So any prof ??
Try Friedrich Nietzsche; Voltaire and Rosseau.
All good contemporary philosophers.
@Abraham Yeh of course, i ll right about them in future parts
well done
The prove that Aristotle was Macedonian is that he was teacher in the Macedonian Royal Palace and only Macedonians could teach there...
He named his school Liceum from 2 Macedonian words that are still used today ( lice = face / um = brain ) . So the meaning was that only people with face (morals) and brain could enter.
@Majk, Lice and Um are not macedonian words but slavic, you wana say that Serbs are macedonian too, or even russians??
Majk, if Aristotle could read this , this is what he would do https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Paris_Tuileries_Garden_Facepalm_statue.jpg
i will kill myself with the things that Fyromians are writing everywhere. Aristotle was a GREEK PHILOSOPHER. I have never said anything about Macedonia name and the general situation because i wanna play that game without those problems, but you guys you are pushing it too far by saying Aristotle is Fyromian
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So part II will have more philosphers from DIFFERENT regions of the worlds as well
yep, from Asia this time
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