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Aristippus The Cyrenaic
(c. 435 B.C. - 366 B.C.)
Greek philosopher who founded the Cyrenaic school of hedonism, the ethic of pleasure. As a desciple of Socrates, he, too, was interested in practical ethics. The original works of Aristippus have not survived. What little is known about him is recorded by Diogenes Laertius—mostly anecdotes of his sayings. (The image is a detail of a statue at the Palazzo Spada, Rome.)
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Science Quotes by Aristippus The Cyrenaic (2)
Every common mechanic has something to say in his craft about good and evil, useful and useless, but these practical considerations never enter into the purview of the mathematician.
— Aristippus The Cyrenaic
Quoted in Robert Drew Hicks, Stoic and Epicurean (1910), 210.
See also: | Consideration (5) | Evil (13) | Good (15) | Mathematician (69) | Mechanic (2) | Practical (11) | Usefulness (19) | Uselessness (2)
Those who eat most, and who take the most exercise, are not in better health than they who eat just as much as is good for them; and in the same way it is not those who know a great many things, but they who know what is useful who are valuable men.
— Aristippus The Cyrenaic
In Diogenes Laertius, translated by Charles Duke Yonge, 'Life of Aristippus', The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (1853), 83.
See also: | Eat (7) | Exercise (16) | Good (15) | Health (62) | Knowledge (341) | Usefulness (19) | Valuable (3)
