Stoic Quotes: Timeless Wisdom for a Fulfilling Life - page 12
That’s the interesting thing about the philosophy — to accomplish the grand, you have to focus on the small. To exist in the eternal perspective, you have to live in the moment.
Pete Carroll
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
Kate Atkinson
To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it.
Augustus William Hare
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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.
The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.
Jose Maria Peman
There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.
Man is condemned to be free
Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
Agatha Christie
Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the 19th century.
Alfred Marshall
He who accepts the unaltered philosophy of another is as ludicrous as he who donshis neighbor's hat, and infinitely more ridiculous.
Paulette Goddard
Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident.
Jacques Monod
Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
Fulton J. Sheen
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Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
