Stoic Quotes: Timeless Wisdom for a Fulfilling Life - page 32

Christianity is not about moving away from vice to virtue. It\'s moving away from virtue to Christ.
Christianity is not about moving away from vice to virtue. It's moving away from virtue to Christ.
 Rod Rosenbladt
Yoga is a philosophy of discipline and meditation that transforms the spirit and makes the individual a better person in thought, action, knowledge and devotion.
Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.
 Steven Erikson
It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man-made that must never be accepted uncritically: it must be judged, then accepted or rejected and changed when necessary.
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.
My parents brought me up with this philosophy. You must do things. You mustn't watch what other people are doing. You must not listen to what other people are doing.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they're also more sensitive to being touched.
 Helen Fisher
The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.
 Anatole France
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
 Adlai E. Stevenson
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.
Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
Service to many leads to greatness- great respect, great satisfaction.
Plato's cave is full of freaks.
 Jack Johnson
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
 Jane Addams
When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.
 Haniel Long