Stoic Philosophy Quotes

#1. I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.

Daphne Guinness

#2. [Philosophers] have come to envy the philologist and the mathematician, and they have taken over all the inessential elements in those studies - with the result that they know more about devoting care and attention to their speech than about devoting such attention to their lives.

Seneca.

#3. The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Maya Angelou

#4. Ridcully was simple-minded. This doesn't mean stupid. It just meant that he could only think properly about things if he cut away all the complicated bits around the edges.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

Sydney Smith

#6. Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.

Marcus Aurelius

#7. There is, I assure you, a medical art for the soul. It is philosophy, whose aid need not be sought, as in bodily diseases, from outside ourselves. We must endeavor with all our resources and all our strength to become capable of doctoring ourselves.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

Epicurus

#9. I certainly am not a great believer in over-rehearsing between actors, and certainly not doing the dialogue too much.

Clive Owen

#10. Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.

Seneca.

#11. If you can show a person logical proof that essentianlly he's got nothing to cry about, he'll stop crying. That seems clear. Don't you think he'd stop crying?'
"That would make life too easy," Raskolnikov replied.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind

Seneca.

#13. Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.

Seneca.

#14. When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.

Marcus Aurelius

#15. Copywriting basically consists of taking something dreadful, putting it in a box with a shiny ribbon, and presenting it to someone. Any disappointment the recipient has upon opening the box is entirely due to their own high expectations and therefore their fault.

David Thorne

#16. In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the Stoic and Alexandrian philosophies ...

Joseph McCabe

#17. Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love.

Ibn Arabi

#18. Here is your great soul - the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself.

Seneca.

#19. There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.

Sally Mann

#20. An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

Epictetus

#21. Gravity (Terms and conditions apply)

Steve Merrick

#22. Better than a shove in the eye with a dry stick. [- Jack]

Patrick O'Brian

#23. So the life of a philosopher extends widely: he is not confined by the same boundary as are others. He alone is free from the laws that limit the human race, and all ages serve him as though he were a god.

Seneca.

#24. Freedom? That's easy. It's in your choices. Happiness? That's easy. It's in your choices. Respect of your peers? That too is in the choices you make.

Ryan Holiday

#25. Feminism, in its fullest meaning, enjoins the human race to establish zones of liberation, and literally to reshape the territorial definition of our patriarchal world, along with the social identities and injustices that those boundaries have defined for all of us.

Leslie Weisman

#26. To find and enjoy profound happiness, learn from nature and emulate her stoic calmness.

Debasish Mridha