Stoic Quotes: Timeless Wisdom for a Fulfilling Life - page 15
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
The advantages of philosophy? That I am able to hold converse with myself.
Antisthenes
The gift of truth excels all other gifts.
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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
Benjamin Rush
There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.
Renata Adler
It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed to be right, and to which he was influenced, more or less, by that belief.
Thomas Reid
As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to explaining away plain facts which obviously conflict with it.
C. D. Broad
Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.
Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon
For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
Charles Kingsley
Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.
James Lee Burke
If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.
Kenny Smith
Give up this dry discussion, this hodge-podge of philosophy. Who has been able to know God by reasoning? Even sages like Suka and Vyasa are at best like big ants trying to carry away a few grains of sugar from a large hea.
Sarada Devi
Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.
For violence or fraud can create no right.
Algernon Sidney
There are a lot of people who pretend to have moral ethics and they talk from both sides of their mouth.
John Assaraf
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It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of thought, like the tortoise, somewhat helplessly; yet there is more than philosophy in that.
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
Peter Ustinov
