“Stoicism sure comes in handy when they take away your underpants. But how to reconcile it with one's insatiable need for other… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“Gary Tolan is a great man because he stands firm in his purpose, moves with integrity, and builds his life with intention—not… — Gary Tolan aka King Tolan Copy Share Image
Black Bolt is typically a stoic leader, part of a larger cast of Inhumans who get their hands dirty in ways that… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“All their principles are true, sceptics, stoics, atheists, etc...but their conclusions are false, because the contrary principles are also true.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reading Epictetus, I realized that most of the pain in my life came not from any actual privations or insults but, rather,… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I'm basically a stoic person anyway, so I just decided to maybe emphasise that, and I was surprised as anybody that it… — Ron Mael Copy Share Image
“The Hermit of the Commonwealth. That had a solid ring to it. Stoic and aesthetic. There was only one problem with the… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
“His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you are a Christian, you can still practice Stoicism and think of the Logos as the Word of God. If you… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The most critical part of this system was the belief that you, the student who has sought out Stoicism, have the most… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
I'm a stoic. When something goes down the pan, enjoy it. Make the best out of a bad job. I'm not the… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
“The redcoats enjoyed little in the way of comfort, earned a pittance and endured terrible hardships and ferocious discipline. Yet they faced… — Paul Fraser Collard Copy Share Image
“Let us suppose that I have wept, on account of some incident of which the other has not even become aware (to… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“According to the Stoics therefore a man is free if his desires are not thwarted. However, if we only desire what is… — Donald J. Robertson Copy Share Image
“You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“ "Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an… — W. Lucas Collins Copy Share Image
“Quite simply, the Count’s father had believed that while a man should attend closely to life, he should not attend too closely… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man? To welcome with affection what is sent by… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The prevailing mood of the painting is stoicism: one man enduring for the sake of science, the other for subsistence. Given the… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human happiness is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh Seneca” — Will Jelbert Copy Share Image
“The supreme ideal does not call for any external aids. It is homegrown, wholly self-developed. Once it starts looking outside itself for… — Seneca Copy Share Image
The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is… — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
“Above all, the Stoics sought wisdom, a condition that I myself hope to achieve after I stop wrecking and burning things.” — James Morrow Copy Share Image
The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
Stoicism is a philosophy designed for the masses, and if it has to be simplified a bit to reach the masses, so… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and many others speak of dying for the law, for one’s country, one’s friends, one’s family, even for… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
You had the stoic Glavine, non-emotional and not knowing what's going on. You had kind of the nerdy professor in Maddux and… — John Smoltz Copy Share Image
The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Stoicism - and philosophy - are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
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