Quotes About Philosophy

Our life is what our thoughts make of it.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

Y entonces amigo mío? haz lo que exige de ti la naturaleza, manos a la obra mientras haya lugar, y no te preocupes por si te imitan. No sueñes en ver establecida la republica de Platón, antes bien, conténtate con tal que progreses un poco, considerando que no es poco fruto este pequeño resultado

Auf die Dauer der Zeit nimmt die Seele die Farbe der Gedanken an.

By not being content with thy ruling Reason doing the work for which it was constituted, thou hast borne unnumbered ills. Nay, 'tis enough!

El libre albedrio de mi prójimo es igualmente indiferente a mi libre albedrio como su soplo y su carne. Puesto que, aunque en realidad unos nacimos para los otros, la recta razón de cada uno posee su propia independencia; de no ser así la maldad del prójimo vendría a ser un mal para mi. Pero Dios no lo ha decretado así, por que de lo contrario estaría en manos de otro el que yo fuera desgraciado.

Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone—those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river: the "what" is in constant flux, the "why" has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what's right here

Not to regard anything at all, though never so little, but right and reason: and always, whether in the sharpest pains, or after the loss of child, or in long diseases, to be still the same man

We ought not to think only upon the fact that our life each day is waning away, what is left of it being ever less, but this also should be a subject for thought

Your soul takes on the colour of your thoughts.

Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.

Everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist. Think of how many changes you've already seen. The world is change. Our life is only perception.

Put an end once for all to this discussion of what a good man should be, and be one.

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse

Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill… I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together

Ons leven is slechts wat onze gedachten ervan maken.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Thou art a poor soul, saddled with a corpse," said Epictetus.

Para que guarde la muerte en actitud placida, no viendo en ella otra cosa que la disolución de los elementos de que consta todo ser viviente. Si no hay nada temible para los mismos elementos en esta transformación incesante de uno en otro ¿por que temer a la transformación y disolución de todas las cosas? Esto es conforme a la naturaleza y nada es malo en cuanto a ella se acomoda

Short is the little which remains to thee in life. Live as on a mountain.

Waste no time arguing what a good man should be; Be one.

nothing is but what thinking makes it.

Uno se deleita en una cosa, el otro en otra. Pero yo me deleito en conservar sano mi principio rector, sin experimentar aversión por hombre alguno, ni por cosa alguna que acontezca a los hombres, antes bien mirándolo todo con buenos ojos, aceptando y usando de cada cosa según su merito.

For if a man fix his mind upon certain things as really and unquestionably good, such as wisdom, temperance, justice, manliness, with this preconception in his mind he could no longer bear to listen to the poet's, By reason of his wealth of goods; for it would not apply. But, if a man first fix his mind upon the things which appear good to the multitude, he will listen and readily accept as aptly added the quotation from the Comic Poet.