Stoic Quotes: Timeless Wisdom for a Fulfilling Life - page 5
There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.
Our failure to see and access the pure joy and radiance of life is owning to a lack of awareness. In any situation there is beauty. Even at the moment of one's death there is beauty.
My mother used to say, If other people have a problem with you, that's their problem. It's not your problem. I still have that philosophy today.
Michael Michele
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A body in movement is its philosophy.
Nelly Mazloum
Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.
Saint John Chrysostom
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
Immanuel Kant
With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.
John Mellencamp
The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.
You don't approach a case with the philosophy of applying abstract justice-you go in to win
Percy Foreman
Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.
'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this did, I can't help thinking puberty assisted.
...you don't need to be technically great, because if you have a strong philosophy people will be moved by your pictures regardless.
Mario Sorrenti
To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses.
Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to eradicate from the human mind the latent and deadly principle of fanaticism.
My philosophy is, 'Show up, shut up, and do your job,' and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you're likely to be able to do it again.
Stephen Lang
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The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.
Marquis de Sade
