Stoic Quotes: Timeless Wisdom for a Fulfilling Life - page 29
Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.
William Carlos Williams
Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.
Tom Hanks
In the mid-1960s, as hard to believe as it may be now, choosing to go into academic philosophy was not an imprudent career choice. There were lots of academic jobs in philosophy then.
Allen W. Wood
The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.
Gaston Bachelard
I am an animal, my teeth are sharp and my mouth is full, and the passion is strong.
Pete Townshend
Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more than she performs.
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
John Robert Seeley
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.
R. D. Laing
What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.
Derek Freeman
I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.
Charles Fort
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
In tantra we have complete faith in the winds of eternity. The key to tantra yoga is to feel that you are not the doer, that you cannot possibly act. All you have to do in life is to accept.
Now many such things may be done without intitling the people to rise in arms. A gross, flagrant, and palpable abuse no doubt will do it, as if they should be required to pay a tax equal to half or third of their substance.
Adam Smith
There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.
Doris Humphrey
Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.
Emeril Lagasse
