Stoic Quotes: Timeless Wisdom for a Fulfilling Life - page 11
Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy sideThy every action let the goddess guide.
Phillis Wheatley
Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious evil which the interests of that class will necessarily demand. It is a construction of theorists.
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
Aleister Crowley
Comedy is acting out optimism.
Robin Williams
My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.
Gene Simmons
Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements to the point where they forget about freedom. Everybody's got their drama going.
People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.
P. J. O'Rourke
Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.
Thomas Hobbes
When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.
Tullian Tchividjian
I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.
Jimmy Cliff
I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.
Sting
I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
Enoch Powell
Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.
Otto Weininger
The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.
Stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge and open and reach out and speak up, this is utopia.
Alanis Morissette
Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.
