Philosophy quotes timeline

1. #1 · trad. 6th c. BCE

   “A journey of a thousand li begins beneath your feet.”

   The popular version '…with a single step' is a later adaptation. The original says 'beneath your feet'.

2. #2 · 551–479 BCE

   “Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

3. #3 · 6th–5th c. BCE

   “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”

4. #4 · c. 535–475 BCE

   “You cannot step twice into the same river.”

5. #5 · 6th–5th c. BCE

   “All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.”

6. #6 · 470–399 BCE

   “The unexamined life is not worth living.”

7. #7 · c. 460–370 BCE

   “Life is short, the art long.”

8. #8 · 428–348 BCE

   “The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

9. #9 · c. 412–323 BCE

   “Stand a little out of my sun.”

10. #10 · 384–322 BCE

    “One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one day.”

    'We are what we repeatedly do' is not Aristotle — it is a 20th-century paraphrase.