Philosophy and Religion Flashcards
1
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To philosophize is to learn how to die.
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Cicero
2
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There is no other purpose to reading and study if not to live a happy life.
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Seneca
3
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The perfect kind of friendship is that of good men who resemble one another in virtue.
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Aristotle
4
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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
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Aristotle
5
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Die at the right time
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Friedrich Nietzsche from Thus Spoke Zarathustra
6
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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
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Voltaire
7
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
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Voltaire actually said the latter in a 1770 letter
8
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To lead people, walk behind them.
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Lao Tzu
9
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So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
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2 Corinthians 4:18
10
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All that is not eternal is eternally useless.
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C.S. Lewis
11
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Build your hopes on things eternal.
Put your faith in things eternal.
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Aunt Mamie
12
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Courage involves pain, and is justly praised; for it is harder to face what is painful than to abstain from what is pleasant.
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Aristotle
13
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Wit is cultured insolence.
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Aristotle
14
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The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
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Confucius
15
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In the beginning especially, we won’t realize we’re changing.
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Tenzin Palmo, author, teacher and founder of the Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery in Himachal Pradesh, India.
16
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A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.
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Proverbs 17:22, KJV Bible
17
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After you die, within just a few generations, nobody even remembers you. Everything you ever earned or created is gone.
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Marcus Aurelius
18
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The question isn’t who is going to let me: it’s who is going to stop me.
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Ayn Rand
19
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Finding something to be thankful for in every circumstance.
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1 Thessalonians 5:18
20
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Nothing succeeds without toil.
There are no gains without pains.
No pain, no gain
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Sophocles
Benjamin Franklin
Jane Fonda
21
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Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
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Proverbs 31:30, NIV
22
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Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.
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1 Peter 3:3-4
23
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Physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.
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1 Timothy 4:8
24
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The land of Nod.
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The place where Cain was condemned to live after he had killed his younger brother, Abel.
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Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan
Count Galeazzo Ciano
26
We would rather align ourselves with angels than with the higher primates from which we are actually descended.
Angela Carter, English novelist talking about the human need to self aggrandize
27
Never discourage anyone who continues to make progress no matter how slow.
Plato
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Every heart sings a song incomplete until another heart whispers back.
Plato
29
I am the wisest man alive for I know one thing and that is I know nothing.
Plato
30
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Plato
31
Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato
32
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
Plato
33
Drunkenness does not give rise to vices; it reveals them.
Plato
34
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
Plato
35
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Plato
36
Nothing can harm a good person in life nor after death.
Plato
37
One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
38
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly while bad people will always find a way around the laws.
Plato
39
Ignorance is the root and stem of every evil.
Plato
40
There is truth in wine and children.
Plato
41
Those who tell stories rule society.
Plato
42
False words are not evil in themselves, but the infect the soul with evil.
Plato
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There is in all of us, even those who seem to be the most moderate a type of desire that is terrible wild and lawless.
Plato
44
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, but the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
45
Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
Plato
46
Poets utter great and wise things that they themselves do not understand.
Plato
47
When the word does not strike, the stick will not help either.
Plato
48
Never forgive a friend who betrayed you once. He will betray you again.
Plato
49
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Plato
50
Treat your parents as you would like your children to treat you.
Plato
51
You married a crazy woman if she says you're perfect.
Plato
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The greatest victory is overcoming your negative thinking.
Plato
53
Win your friends not with flattery, but with sincere words of love.
Plato
54
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Plato
55
If you were answered with silence, this does not mean you were not answered.
Plato
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There are three classes of men: lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain
Plato
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The world is boring for boring people.
Plato
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Bad people live to eat and drink. Virtuous people eat and drink in order to live.
Plato
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You should not honor men more than truth.
Plato
60
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
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An empty vessel makes the loudest sound so those who have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
Plato
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People are like dirt. They can nourish you and help you grow or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
Plato
63
When people speak ill of thee, live so that nobody may believe them.
Plato
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
Plato
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Without friendship no communication between people has value.
Plato
66
He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing
Epicurus
67
Don't even dare trust a wife that says you're always right.
Epicurus
68
Of all the means to ensure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
Epicurus
69
Reason is a slave to the passions.
David Hume
70
Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes
our abundance.
Epicurus
71
The easiest thing of all is to deceive oneself; for we believe what we want to believe.
Demosthenes
72
Beauty is a short lived tyranny.
Socrates
73
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Socrates
74
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Socrates
Socrates
75
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates
76
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates
77
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
78
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Socrates
79
All I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates
80
Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
Socrates
81
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Socrates
82
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Socrates
83
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
Socrates
84
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates
85
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates
86
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Socrates
87
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Socrates
88
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Socrates
89
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Socrates
90
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
91
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
92
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
93
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Socrates
94
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates
95
Anything too stupid to be spoken is sung.
Voltaire
96
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
97
Thinking in metaphor is the highest form of thought.
Aristotle
98
It is the sad duty of politics to establish justice in a sinful world.
Reinhold Niebuhr, Protestant theologian
99
You can't do your job and be afraid.
Meryl Streep
100
Life without a design is erratic.
Seneca
101
People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time, they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.
Seneca
102
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus
103
Don’t be deterred, but be determined.
Pastor Roy Moore
104
We do more fleshly things than spiritual things.
Pastor Roy Moore
105
Follow the mean.
“Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.”
Aristotle
106
It is the mark of the trained mind never to expect more precision in the treatment of any subject than the nature of that subject permits.
Aristotle
107
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
108
Waking life is a dream
controlled.
George Santayana
109
Think for yourself, not by yourself.
Bhikhu Parekh
110
Confucius
Kongzi
111
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Ganhdi
112
For as he thinks in his heart, so is he
Proverbs 23: 7
113
Consider yourself lightly. Consider the world deeply.
Miyamoto Musashi
114
The greatest reward of righteousness is peace
of mind.
Epicurus
115
Everything depends on everything else. The one contains the many and the many contains one.
Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, peace activist, prolific author, poet and teacher, who founded the Plum Village Tradition, historically recognized as the main inspiration for engaged Buddhism
116
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aurelius
117
He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.
Epicurus
118
The secret of a joyful life is to live dangerously.
Friedrich Nietzsche
119
The surest way to corrupt youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche
120
The earth is essential, universal, and eternal. Don’t anthropomorphize nature into being an organism — the universe is something greater.
Friedrich Nietzsche
121
Gird yourselves for a hard battle; but have faith in the miracles of your god!
Friedrich Nietzsche
122
Avoid emasculated inquiries.
Friedrich Nietzsche
123
Figure out how to help yourself to grow stronger in life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
124
Hate self-weakness, thrive in strength.
Friedrich Nietzsche
125
Instead of classifying knowledge— interpret information, and create meaning and purpose.
Friedrich Nietzsche
126
The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote this in an 1860 essay.
127
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus, Algerian-born French philosopher
128
Kings and philosophers shit — and so do ladies. Even on the highest throne in the world, we are seated still upon our asses.
Michel de Montaigne
129
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
Immanuel Kant
130
Tone your wants and tastes low down enough, and make much of negatives, and of mere daylight and the skies.
Walt Whitman
131
Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both.
Soren Kierkegaard on the inevitability of suffering.
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sub specie aeternitatis
Baruch Spinoza coined this phrase that means "under the aspect of eternity."
Embracing life’s events from a long-term, eternal perspective rather than just the fleeting present.
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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
Arthur Schopenhauer
134
Happiness is not made by what we own. It is what we share.
Jonathan Sacks, English Orthodox rabbi, philosopher, theologian, and author.
135
To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
Lao Tzu
136
To the most trivial actions, attach the devotion and mindfulness of a hundred monks. To matters of life and death, attach a sense of humor.
Zhuangzi
137
Wash away your old opinions to let new ideas in.
Zhu Xi
138
There is no fixed shape to the preservation of perfect balance; it depends on the circumstances of the moment.
Zhu Xi
139
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
140
True change is within; leave the outside as it is.
Dalai Lama
141
Wisdom is born of meditation; without meditation wisdom is lost.
Gautama Buddha
142
Conquer anger with love, evil with good, meanness with generosity, and lies with truth.
Gautama Buddha
143
Mix a little foolishness with your prudence; it's good to be silly at the right moment.
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus)
144
The path from dreams to success does exist.
Kalpana Chawla, American astronaut
145
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Cicero
146
Be who you were created to be and you will set the world on fire.
Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire.
St. Catherine of Siena
147
Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
St. Catherine of Siena
148
We’ve had enough exhortations to be silent. Cry out with a thousand tongues – I see the world is rotten because of silence.
St. Catherine of Siena
149
The soul always fears until she arrives at true love.
St. Catherine of Siena
150
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard, Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author
151
Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.
Soren Kierkegaard, Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author
152
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
Epictetus
153
Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.
Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher
154
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.
Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher
155
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it,
Confucius
156
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Seneca
157
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
Colossians 3:2-4
158
The mind is a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
159
uncircumcised lips
Moses's metaphorical way of expressing his perceived inadequacy as a speaker when God directs him to go to Pharaoh and demand that he let the Israelites go free.
160
You can’t enjoy your posthumous fame.
Marcus Aurelius
161
consecration
Biblically, it means:
1) The act of dedicating yourself to the service and worship of God.
2) To make holy or dedicate to a higher purpose. 3) Association with the sacred.
Devoting yourself to the Lord, repenting of your sins, and affirming your faith through baptism
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clobber passages
The 6 biblical verses that justify prejudice against LGBTQIA people.
Genesis 19:4–25 (the story of Sodom and Gomorrah)
Leviticus 18:22 (“You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female.”)
Leviticus 20:13 (“If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act.”)
Romans 1:26–27 (“The men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts.”)
1 Corinthians 6:9–11 (“Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.”)
1 Timothy 1:9–10 (“Law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching.”)
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We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
Seneca
164
To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.
Thich Nhat Hanh
165
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
166
Waste no more time arguing what a good man might be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius
167
When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
Thich Nhat Hanh
168
What you resist not only persists, but will grow in size.
Carl Jung
169
Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem?
Isaiah 2:22 NIV
170
What is happiness except the
simple harmony between a
man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus
What is happiness except the
simple harmony between a
man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus`
171
6. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.
Romans 8:6-8
New International Version
172
There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
Seneca
173
They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.
Hosea 8:7
God says that Israel had planted wind and would harvest a whirlwind. Taking the “wind” to mean something worthless and foolish (see Job 7:7; Proverbs 11:29; and Ecclesiastes 1:14, 17), we can surmise that Israel’s foolishness in the past would result in a veritable storm of consequence. Indeed, in the previous verses, Hosea decries Israel’s idolatry (verses 4-6). Their foolish pursuit of false gods would reap a severe judgment from the Lord.
Also at work in the proverb is the principle of multiplication: a farmer may plant one kernel of corn, but he will reap much more than that—a whole ear. In the same way, Israel’s sin of idolatry would bring forth an amplified consequence that would sweep them all away.
174
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Gautama Buddha
175
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius, 2nd century CE
176
With a large enough sample, any outrageous thing is likely to happen.
Persi Diaconis and Frederick Mosteller observed this in a 1989 paper.
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You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
Thich Nhât Hanh
178
Trust not too much in appearances.
Virgil
179
From now on practice saying to anything unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and not what you appear to be.
Epictetus
180
A single girl who needs nobody makes people
uncomfortable, and my mom is right in this,
appearance is everything, and appearing to
have no one is like swimming alone in the
middle of the ocean with a flesh wound.
Elsa Schappeli
181
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy just to be normal.
Albert Camus
182
Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted.
Francis Bacon
183
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
Pope John Paul II
184
Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
Buddha
185
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
John Paul II
186
Of all the things which wisdom has contrived which contribute to a blessed life, none is more important, more fruitful, than friendship.
Epicurus— quoted by Cicero
187
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aurelius
188
If you would understand virtue, observe the conduct of virtuous men.
Aristotle's Ethics
189
We can smile and relax. Everything we want is right here in the present moment.
Thích Nhât Hanh
190
Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.
Miyamoto Musashi
191
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Euripides
192
There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is
one of them.
Vicki Baum
193
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu
194
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr.
195
Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit.
George Santayana
196
The best remedy for anger is delay.
Seneca
197
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
Seneca
198
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
Epicurus
199
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
Albert Camus
200
The Ideal age for marriage in men is 35. The Ideal age for marriage in women is 18.
Aristotle
201
Any God who is mine, but not yours, any god who is concerned with me and not you, is an idol.
Abraham J. Heschel, Polish-American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century.
202
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom
Soren Kierkegaard
203
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Seneca
204
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
205
If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
206
Become who you are.
Friedrich Nietzsche
207
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche
208
There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
209
He who has a why in life can tolerate almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
210
The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
211
Hell is other people.
Sartre
212
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.
Joan Didion
213
If a lion could speak our language, we could not understand it.
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein meant that because we do not have a shared experience and worldview, its words would lack any context allowing us to interpret them.
We need an insight into the cultural milieu of the speaker so as to properly catch the meaning.
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
215
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius
216
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus Aurelius
217
There is a limit circumscribed to your time — if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return.
Marcus Aurelius
218
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?
Marcus Aurelius
219
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Marcus Aurelius
220
It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. Otherwise it cannot harm you — inside or out.
Marcus Aurelius
221
He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
Lao Tzu
222
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Lao Tzu
223
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu
224
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
François de La Rochefoucauld
225
Jealousy contains more of self-love than love.
François de La Rochefoucauld
226
The fall of dropping water wears away the stone.
Lucretius, Roman philosopher
(you have to act consistently)
227
We labor at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because to us it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
228
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
229
To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.
Confucius
230
In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.
Sun-Tzu, A Arte da Guerra
231
Stay hungry, stay foolish.
Steve Jobs
232
Many are the wonders of the world, and none
so wonderful as man.
Sophocles
233
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.
Marcus Aurelius
234
“Ought implies can” — if someone “ought” to do or feel a certain way, then they must be able to.
Immanuel Kant
235
The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.
Aristotle
236
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus
237
What you think about day and night forms your character and personality.
Masami Saionji
238
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
Epictetus
239
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself
nor another.
Epicurus
