Stoic Quotes: Timeless Wisdom for a Fulfilling Life - page 18
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
Sallust
The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they must adapt to the precepts which have ben set from above. One of these precepts is not to think.
Paulo Freire
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Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.
Progress must not become progressivism, where success is measured only by achieving pragmatic results.
Mal Fletcher
The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.
John Donne
Moving ahead, so life won’t pass me by.
Jim Croce
Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation. ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science.
Hans Reichenbach
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
There's two lanes running down this road which ever side your on, accounts for where you want to go or what you're running from.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.
Epicurus
Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
Matthew Arnold
Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
Galileo Galilei
The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.
Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.
Peace cannot come by legislation or through affiliation with any political philosophy...Peace, joy, and happiness can come only through an acceptance of God's revealed plan of life.
Theodore M. Burton
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.
