Stoic Quotes: Timeless Wisdom for a Fulfilling Life - page 19
This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.
Malala Yousafzai
Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.
Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
Will Durant
My life is perfect because I accept it as it is.
Lenny Kravitz
One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.
The border between the natural and the supernatural, religion and philosophy, may not always be clear. But there are lines and we should know and accept which side of it we are on.
Julian Baggini
'Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's profound. The message, that we can't accommodate evil, is just as important today.
Jon Voight
A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.
John of Salisbury
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.
If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.
I. F. Stone
Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.
Ernest Sosa
Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
James Buchan
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.
Eric S. Raymond
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
Thomas a Kempis
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.
Aelred of Rievaulx
