Collected Quotes
It is with life as with a play – it matters now how long the action is spun out, but how good the acting is. – Seneca the Younger
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. – Shakespeare
Who would live and not love? – Rachel Russell
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? – Jean Jacques Rousseau
Things are beautiful if you love them. – Jean Anouilh
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. – Joseph Addison
I need your calm all other things above, after the stress of life. – Charles Towne
A friend is a gift you give yourself. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Paving the cow path - Craig
As a matter of fact. . . - Mario
Learn how to live spherically – Tuscan Sun
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. – Buddha
An articulation of the soul in any form possible – ML
Scratching at a thin wall of categories – ML
There will come a time when I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread or a drought of water, but a famine of truth. – Amos
The life of the dead rests in remembrance of the living. – Cicero
We are ambitious to secure the contradictory components of good health in great luxury, complete freedom with absolute security, and emotional peace from an undisciplined and uncommitted mind. – Joe Phillips
My friends had no idea I was smart, until like Junior Year. - random classmate
McSteel Mill - Matt R-K.
Hold fast your dreams
within your heart
keep one still, secret spot
where dreams may go
and sheltered so
may thrive and grow.
-Louise Driscoll
M. Forstater:
“Below my feet, underground trains speed through the bowels of the earth.”
“We are faced with a world that is suffering at our own hands.”
“Throughout history technological development has always moved itself forward, leaving the moral order trailing behind. In our time technological change and innovation have been so swift and transformative that the moral order has lagged well behind and is now struggling to catch up.”
“It stands for the growing awareness that we and the planet are part of a single system; that we can no longer think of ourselves as in some way separate from the natural world.”
“[T]he sole object of [Marcus’] government. . . was the happiness of its people.”
“[I]t remains an exceptional period in the recorded history of leadership and power.”
“he detested war as a disgrace and calamity of human nature”
“This is not a book to be read in a single sitting, but one to be dipped into, perhaps at night before going to bed, to find some new thoughts or consolations, or early in the morning before starting the day. Even opening the book at random can lead you to reflect of your existence, the course of your life, the events that are happening to you and how best to handle them.”
“philosophers, whose truths are undimmed by age”
“They saw philosophy as a therapy, as a method for healing souls. As Epicurus said, “Our only occupation should be the cure of ourselves.”
“Can Greek philosophy provide a remedy for our twenty-first-century malaise?”
“Philosophy, as a way of reclaiming our minds, is perhaps the first and most important step on the road to regaining some form of control over our lives.”
“He practiced his philosophy daily so that he could command the empire without losing his treasured ideals of justice and humanity. The philosophy he lived by is one of empowerment, independence, and self-reliance.” – on Marcus Aurelius
Posted by Amanda at December 12, 2003 09:52 PM
