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No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
The first thing a pretender to philosophy must do is get rid of their presuppositions; a person is not going to undertake to learn anything that they think they already know.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
“It’s unfortunate that this has happened”. No. It’s fortunate that this has happened and I’ve remained unharmed by it — not shattered by the present or frightened of the future. It could have happened to anyone. But not everyone could have remained unharmed by it.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Take a good hard look at people’s ruling principle, especially of the wise, what they run away from and what they seek out.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
People who are physically ill are unhappy with a doctor who doesn’t give them advice, because they think he has given up on them. Shouldn’t we feel the same towards a philosopher – and assume that he has given up hope of our ever becoming rational – if he will no longer tell us what we need (but may not like) to hear?
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching, and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application – not far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech – and learn them so well that words become works.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
The work of philosophy is simple and modest. Do not draw me aside into pomposity.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
It stares you in the face. No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
This, then, is the beginning of philosophy – an awareness of one’s own mental fitness.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
This presumption that you possess knowledge of any use has to be dropped before you approach philosophy – just as if we were enrolling in a school of music or mathematics.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Reflect on the other social roles you play. If you are a council member, consider what a council member should do. If you are young, what does being young mean, if you are old, what does age imply, if you are a father, what does fatherhood entail? Each of our titles, when reflected upon, suggests the acts appropriate to it.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
What then can guide a man? One thing and only one, philosophy. But this consists in keeping the daimon within a man free from violence and unharmed, superior to pains and pleasures, doing nothing without a purpose, nor yet falsely and with hypocrisy.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
My city and country, so far as I am Antoninus, is Rome; but so far as I am a man, it is the world.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Do you want to know if you are educated? Show us your values, philosopher.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.”
Quote by -Plato
“Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.”
Quote by -Plato
“The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.”
Quote by -Plato
“Philosophers often appear to intend to want to get answers about humans that we can't get about insects, and that's too much, yaknow?”
Quote by -Noam Chomsky
“I remember the philosopher Bertrand Russell was asked why he spent his time protesting against nuclear war and getting arrested on demonstrations. Why didn’t he continue to work on the serious philosophical and logical problems which have major intellectual significance? And his answer was pretty good. He said: “Look, if I and others like me only work on those problems, there won’t be anybody around to appreciate it or be interested.”
Quote by -Noam Chomsky
“Our philosophy is to rob everything as much as possible and forget about tomorrow...But it makes a certain sense if the sole human value is making as much wealth as you can tomorrow. You don't care what happens down the road and you don't care what happens to anybody else. It makes perfect sense. If it destroys the world, well, it's not my problem.”
Quote by -Noam Chomsky
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
Quote by -Anton Chekhov
Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.
Quote by -Anton Chekhov
For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.
Quote by -John Keats
Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.
Quote by -Alexander Pope
Use your heart to love somebody. And If your heart is big enough, use your heart to love EVERYBODY
Quote by -Stevie Wonder
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
Quote by -Bertrand Russell
My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
Quote by -Anthony Hopkins
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me, and think of me. I am what I am, I do what I do. I expect nothing, and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
Quote by -Anthony Hopkins
My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
Quote by -Anthony Hopkins
The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes.
Quote by -Orlando Bloom
"Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought."
Quote by -William Butler Yeats
"Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine - and even, alas! Theology - from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before."
Quote by -Johann Von Goethe
"I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine -- and even, alas! Theology -- from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before."
Quote by -Johann Von Goethe
"Philosophically, I don't there's a lot of difference in terms of what we like to do. His knowledge of the league and being able to define things internally in the organization, so you have everybody on the same page, are probably his greatest assets. That and recognition of what people can do - the strength of players, coaches and people in the organization - and putting them in position where they can have success doing it."
Quote by -Nick Saban
"It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist."
Quote by -Jean-Jacques Rousseau