Philo of Larissa Quotes on God
Philo of Larissa was the last head of the skeptical Platonic Academy and the teacher of Cicero in Rome. This page collects quotes attributed to Philo of Larissa on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“There is no sweeter delight than that the soul should be charged through and through with justice, exercising itself in her eternal principles and doctrines and leaving no vacant place into which injustice can make its way.”
On the Special Laws | 97. -
“The legislator of the Jews in a bolder spirit went to a further extreme and in the practice of his “naked” philosophy, as they call it, ventured to speak of him who was possessed by love of the divine.”
Every Good Man is Free | 43. -
“He who has God alone for his leader, he alone is free.”
Every Good Man is Free | 20. -
“The good man … has learnt to set at naught the injunctions laid upon him by those most lawless rulers of the soul, inspired as he is by his ardent yearning for the freedom whose peculiar heritage it is that it obeys no orders and works no will but its own.”
Every Good Man is Free | 22. -
“The majority, who through the blindness of their reason do not discern the damages which the soul has sustained, only feel the pain of external injuries, because the faculty of judgment, which alone can enable them to apprehend the damage to the mind, is taken from them.”
Every Good Man is Free | 55.