| Philo differentiated between the existence of God, which could be demonstrated, and the nature of God which humans are not able to cognize. |
| Philo and Josephus also stressed that the Essenes lived in villages and cities, preferring to congregate on the fringes. |
| Philo adopted the Platonic concept of the soul with its tripartite division. |
| Philo is careful in his descriptions to distance the courageous from any association with softness. |
| After seeing a plowed field, inventor Philo Farnsworth realized how to transmit images through air, an insight that led to television. |
| Under the pressure of Stoic objections to his fallibilist epistemology Philo apparently made some controversial innovations in Academic philosophy. |
