Quotes About Epicureanism

#1. Both Stoicism and Epicureanism - . the apathetic acceptance of defeat, and the effort to forget defeat in the arms of pleasure - were theories as to how one might yet be happy though subjugated or enslaved;

Will Durant

#2. It is with this movement, with the passage and dissolution of impressions, images, sensations, that analysis leaves off - that continual vanishing away, that strange, perpetual weaving and unweaving of ourselves.

Walter Pater

#3. They tried to make me go to rehab, I said 'No, no, no,'

Amy Winehouse

#4. No one knows who I am in Australia. They don't even know I am Australian, because 'The Secret Circle' is on in Australia, and I'm sure everyone's like, 'Oh, she's American. She's from, like, North Carolina.' Like, nobody knows me in Australia, I'm just telling you.

Phoebe Tonkin

#5. Things don't happen for a reason, things give you reasons to make things happen.

Jon R.

#6. Some folk are dealt a bad hand. But you can't rely on another person's conscience to live the life you want to live. You make do with what you're given; you struggle on.

Eleanor Catton

#7. As Logan walked towards her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms.

Nicholas Sparks

#8. To feed death with her works is here life's doom.

Sri Aurobindo

#9. Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.

Epicurus

#10. I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.

Jack London

#11. As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.
[Letter to William Short, 31 October 1819]

Thomas Jefferson

#12. The image we have of bin Laden in his final years in Abbottabad is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage of himself; just another suburban dad flipping though the channels with his remote.

Peter L. Bergen

#13. For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

Francis Bacon

#14. If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

Epicurus

#15. No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.

Ann Landers

#16. Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be found, so the choice would be less likely to be diverted from him, by the intrigues of the ambitious, or the bribes of the rich.

James Madison

#17. Death means nothing to us

Epicurus