Philo Quotes

Emotions become more violent when expression is stifled.

Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

I know that God exists. I know that I have never invented anything. I have been a medium by which these things were given to the culture as fast as the culture could earn them. I give all the credit to God.

Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.

How then, is it natural that the mind of man, being so small as contained in such narrow spaces as a brain or a heart, should have room for all the vastness of sky and Universe?

Every virtuous man is free.

Remorse for what is done is useless.

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.

Households, cities, countries and nations have enjoyed great happiness, when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such men not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

The body is the soul's house. Shouldn't we therefore take care of our house so that it doesn't fall into ruin?

Learning is by nature, curiosity.

What God is to the world, that parents are to their children.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. by Saint Philo of Alexandria

God welcomes genuine service, and that is the service of a soul that offers the bare and simple sacrifice of truth; but from false service, the mere display of material wealth, He turns away.