Philo of Larissa Quotes on Mind
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 mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Philo of Larissa:
“Suspension of judgment is a discipline of the mind, not a refusal to think.”
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“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. -
“Wisdom … never closes her school of thought but always opens her doors to those who thirst for the sweet water of discourse, and pouring on them an unstinted stream of undiluted doctrine, persuades them to be drunken with the drunkenness which is soberness itself.”
Every Good Man is Free | 13. -
“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.