id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3671 Sage (philosophy) - Wikipedia .html text/html 2152 431 59 A sage (Ancient Greek: σοφός, sophos), in classical philosophy, is someone who has attained wisdom. Several of the schools of Hellenistic philosophy have the sage as a featured figure. Karl Ludwig Michelet wrote that "Greek religion culminated with its true god, the sage"; Pierre Hadot develops this idea, stating that "the moment philosophers achieve a rational conception of God based on the model of the sage, Greece surpasses its mythical representation of its gods."[3] Indeed, the actions of the sage are propounded to be how a god would act in the same situation. This indifference to externals was achieved by the sage through the correct knowledge of impressions, a core concept in Stoic epistemology.[17] Thus, the sage's happiness, eudaimonia, was based entirely on virtue.[18] Wikiquote has quotations related to: Sage (philosophy) The Sage in Ancient Philosophy "The Stoic Sage and The Decline of Stoicism". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3671.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3671.txt