Quotes About Philosophy

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we must not think as all men think, but only as those who live a life accordant with nature. As for those who live otherwise, he remembers always how they act at home and abroad, by night and by day, and how and with whom they are found in company. And so he cannot esteem the praise of such, for they enjoy not their own approbation.

Forget not in future, when anything would lead you to feel hurt, to take your stand upon this axiom: This is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

Prvo - stvari ne mogu dirnuti um: one su izvanjske i nepomi?ne; strepnja može pote?i samo iz unutarnje prosudbe. Drugo, da se sve ono što vidiš mijenja još u trenutku dok to promatraš, i zatim nestaje. Neprekidno se podsje?aj da si se i ti, kakva si sebe vidio, ve? promojenio Univerzum je mijena - život je prosudba.

Moja loša sre?a kriva je što me to snašlo.-Ne, radije reci: Moja je sre?a, što, iako me to snašlo, mogu sve to otrpjeti bez patnje, da me sadašnjica ne zdrobi, i da ne strepim pred budu?noš?u.

Sudi o sebi sukladno svakoj rije?i ili djelu što su u skladu s prirodom i ne dopuštaj da te ikakve i i?ije zakašnjele kritike i uvjeravanja odvrate od toga .Ne, ako je to bilo dobro re?i ili u?initi, onda se ne odri?i vlastita prava. Te druge vodi njihov um i oni se pokoravaju vlastitim porivima. Neka te ništa takvo ne smeta, nastavi ravno naprijed i slijedi vlastitu prirodu kao i prirodu univerzuma - njih dvije kro?e jednom i istom stazom.

Što god itko u?ini ili kaže, ja moram biti dobar ?ovjek. Kao da smaragd, ili zlato, ili purpur, neprekidno govore: ''Što god itko u?ini ili kaže, moram biti smaragd i o?uvati vlastitu boju.

The sacrifice that Christianity asks of us is not ultimately a sacrifice of the intellect.

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

Those who lack within themselves the means for living a blessed and happy life will find any age painful. - How to grow old: ancient wisdom for the second half of life.

The essence of Ciceronian philosophy is a sense of wonder at the interconnectedness of human beings to one another and to the universe that encompasses them.

For as I like a man in whom there is something of the old, so I like a man in whom there is something of the young; and he who follows this maxim, in body will possibly be an old man but he will never be an old man in mind.

There is also a tradition about Socrates. He liked walking, it is recorded, until a late hour of the evening, and when someone asked him why he did this he said he was trying to work up an appetite for his dinner.

It's not by strength or speed or swiftness of body that great deeds are done, but by wisdom, character, and sober judgment.

By all means press on . . . and bear in mind that you are not mortal, but only that body of yours. You are not the person presented by your physical appearance. A man's true self is his mind, not that form which can be pointed out by a finger.

There is no people so brutish or barbarous that they do not know that they must believe in a god, even if they do not know precisely what god they should worship.

As for you, my young friends, I urge you to strive for virtue, for without it friendship cannot exist. And friendship, aside from virtue, is the greatest thing we can find in life.

But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live.

As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.

non deterret sapientem mors.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Utinam tam facile vera invenire possim quam falsa convincere.