Stoic Quotes: Timeless Wisdom for a Fulfilling Life - page 13

The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general rules to specific cases, thereby making the actions of government fair and predictable.
The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general rules to specific cases, thereby making the actions of government fair and predictable.
 Max Weber
Each person must discover his own philosophy of life, and it is not fair or right to impose our codes upon others. It is also our responsibility, however, to share, one with another, such experiences as may have common value.
 Manly Hall
Living in the spiritual world is very easy, once you grow accustomed to it. But initially, it puts you through some changes.
History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.
In addition to their 'do no evil' motto, Googlers have always been guided by another, much less explicit philosophy: 'computational arrogance.'
 Evgeny Morozov
Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.
 Judy Blume
Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.
 Julian Baggini
There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ``the good life,'' which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.
 Reinhold Niebuhr
As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.
 Ivan Panin
The mind is inherently embodied.
Thought is mostly unconscious.
Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.
The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.
 George Lakoff
I am not a very timid type. It's very important to some people, but not to me. I have a simple philosophy: worry about those things you can fix. It you can't fix it, don't worry about it; accept it and do the best you can.
 Jimmy Doolittle
Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one
 Harold Lewis
Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.
 Pablo Casals
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
 Joseph Joubert
There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the white ant.
The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for thinking.
 Kenny Smith
Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.
 Leonard Adleman
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
 Bela Lugosi
We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.
We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.
 Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.