Top 31 Quotes About Stoics
#1. Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.
Oswald Chambers
#2. The Stoics say, " Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Blaise Pascal
#3. In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
Alexander Pope
#4. No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.
Seneca The Younger
#5. A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.
Jenny Offill
#7. Thus the Stoics arrive at their main thesis. Virtue alone is admirable, virtue is absolutely self-sufficient; the good man needs no help from circumstances, neither sickness nor adversity can harm him; he is a king, a god among men.
Marcus Aurelius
#8. Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#9. How, after all, can we convince ourselves to want the things we already have? THE STOICS THOUGHT they had an answer to this question.
William B. Irvine
#10. the Stoics had always approved of participation in public life, and this stand struck a chord with the Roman aristocracy, whose code of values placed a premium on political and military activity.
Marcus Aurelius
#11. I must say, extreme justice is an extreme injury: for we ought not to approve of those terrible laws that make the smallest offences capital, nor of that opinion of the Stoics that makes all crimes equal;
Thomas More
#12. To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'
Francis Bacon
#13. As Deng Xiaoping once said, "I don't care if the cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice." The Stoics had their own reminder: "Don't go expecting Plato's Republic." Because
Ryan Holiday
#14. Stoics held that material objects alone existed; but immanent in the material universe was a spiritual force which acted through them, manifesting itself under many forms, as fire, aether, spirit, soul, reason, the ruling principle.
Marcus Aurelius
#15. Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians, Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies.
Thomas Hobbes
#16. Above all, the Stoics sought wisdom, a condition that I myself hope to achieve after I stop wrecking and burning things.
James K. Morrow
#17. I'll suggest that the happiness hypothesis offered by Buddha and the Stoics should be amended: Happiness comes from within, and happiness comes from without. We need the guidance of both ancient wisdom and modern science to get the balance right.
Jonathan Haidt
#18. The allegiance of the citizen, in the only sense in which the word can be tolerated in a republic, is due to the law. What idea other men may have of a law higher than the supreme law, I know not. Like the notion of the Stoics concerning Fate, it is perfectly incomprehensible.
James L. Petigru
#19. To be virtuous, then, is to live as we were designed to live; it is to live, as Zeno put it, in accordance with nature.18 The Stoics would add that if we do this, we will have a good life.
William B. Irvine
#20. For the Stoics, then, our judgments about the world are all that we can control, but also all that we need to control in order to be happy; tranquility results from replacing our irrational judgments with rational ones
Oliver Burkeman
#21. His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools
the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans
and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.
Terry Pratchett
#22. Philosophy is the true home of irony, which might be defined as logical beauty: for wherever men are philosophizing in spoken or written dialogues, and provided they are not entirely systematic, irony ought to be produced and postulated; even the Stoics regarded urbanity as a virtue.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#23. Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?
Marcus Aurelius
#24. Let the Stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. All their principles are true, sceptics, stoics, atheists, etc...but their conclusions are false, because the contrary principles are also true.
Blaise Pascal
#26. We Stoics are not subjects of a despot: each of us lays claim to his own freedom.
Seneca.
#27. To all the defiant stoics, laughing and fighting lonesome battles in the face of adversity.
Kin F. Kam
#28. The Stoics forbid this emotion to their sages as being base and cowardly.
Michel De Montaigne
#29. The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it. But even this wears off in time. What
Herman Melville
#30. Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower.
Marcus Aurelius
#31. Well, that's what I still think, but I am in a rut at work--I hate my job,' I said, allowing my emotions to find words.
Luke Lively
