Philosopher Epictetus Quotes

#1. The Greek philosopher Epictetus recognised this two thousand years ago when he wrote: 'What disturbs and alarms man are not the things but his opinions and fancies about the things.

Robert Harris

#2. The Greek philosopher Epictetus said, First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Laini Taylor

#3. Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker.

Epictetus

#5. So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in rehearsal. That's very uncreative. They don't discover the kinds of things that add up to a remarkable performance.

Benjamin Harkarvy

#6. This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.

{Comment on German scientist Eduard Buchner who later ironically won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery}

Adolf Von Baeyer

#7. You must be one man, either good or bad. You must cultivate either your own ruling faculty or externals, and apply yourself either to things within or without you; that is, be either a philosopher, or one of the vulgar.

Epictetus

#8. What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?

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#9. which is to say, stand with the philosopher, or else with the mob!" - EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.15.13 W

Ryan Holiday

#10. Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

Madeline Kahn

#11. The Bible isn't meant to just inform us, it is meant to transform us. 40 Days in the Word will teach you how to be not just a hearer of the Word, but a doer of the Word!

Rick Warren

#12. The philosopher's lecture room is a 'hospital': you ought not to walk out of it in a state of pleasure, but in pain; for you are not in good condition when you arrive.

Epictetus

#13. What has roots as nobody sees,
Is taller than trees,
Up, up it goes,
And yet never grows?
(Answer: a mountain)

J.R.R. Tolkien

#14. If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.

Epictetus

#15. In short, we do not abandon any discipline for despair of ever being the best in it.

Epictetus

#16. I think most people who call themselves relativists are not, in practice.

Peter Kreeft

#17. Stop, collaborate and listen.

Vanilla Ice

#18. I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.

Helen Mirren

#19. A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

Epictetus

#20. Epictetus, a Greek philosopher, once wrote, Circumstances do not make the man. They merely reveal him to himself.

Brian Tracy

#21. The condition and characteristic of an uninstructed person is this: he never expects from himself profit (advantage) nor harm, but from externals. The condition and characteristic of a philosopher is this: he expects all advantage and all harm from himself.

Epictetus

#22. Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.

Epictetus

#23. If you wish to be a writer; write!
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Epictetus (50-120) Greek philosopher.

Epictetus

#24. I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

Adam Ant

#25. Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful..

Cornelia Funke

#26. When the attack is "due" (or a little overdue), it will occur, explosively, whether or not there is any provocation.

Oliver Sacks

#27. Focus on our ignorance." She didn't quite grasp the concept. She'd never been ignorant.

John Sandford

#28. Epictetus, the pagan philosopher, proved in his life the truth of his own words - "A man can be happy without wealth, without family, without office or honor, without health, without anything that the world seeks after.

Orison Swett Marden

#29. I'm so marrying him for his wine. Don't judge me. Girls have needs.

Rachel Van Dyken

#30. Be adaptable, flexible and never stop learning. The rate of change will never stop and neither should you.

Brian Regan

#31. If you ever happen to turn your attention to externals, for the pleasure of any one, be assured that you have ruined your scheme of life. Be contented, then, in everything, with being a philosopher; and if you with to seem so likewise to any one, appear so to yourself, and it will suffice you.

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#32. Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don't talk how persons ought to eat, but
eat as you ought. For remember that in this manner Socrates also universally avoided all ostentation.

Epictetus

#33. The philosopher's school, ye men, is a surgery: you ought not to go out of it with pleasure, but with pain. For you are not in sound health when you enter.

Epictetus

#34. Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.

Mahatma Gandhi