Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

The human word is neither immortal nor invulnerable; but it is the power that orders our chaos, and the light by which we live.

The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.

What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.

Man - a figment of God's imagination.

The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows.

All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.

All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment. I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom. Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

I have created a new universe from nothing.

The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays.

Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.

Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them with wisdom.

Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.

All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.

For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.

With his head in his hands, God thought and thought, Till he thought: I'll make me a man!

She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.

The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem.

Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation, like God himself, to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down.