Quotes About Stoic

Hild stood cloakless, impervious to the chill. It fed the legend-the main who felt nothing.

What the Greek called Kosmos was the image of a world that is not continuous but complete. Inevitably, then, the Greek man himself was not a series but a term. What his philosophers occasionally told him on the subject they had heard, not experienced, and what a few brilliant minds in the Asiatic-Greek cities (such as Hipparchus and Aristarchus) discovered was rejected alike by the Stoic and by the Aristotelian, and outside a small professional circle not even noticed.

Henceforth nothing could shake him and no doubt could cause him to waver. He had found his way to sphinxlike imperturbability.

a guard was like a sphinx. He functioned not by some deed, but rather by his mere bodily presence.

A man with a mace for a hand stood in front of the gates with a frown that undoubtedly took centuries to perfect.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was proclaiming the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.