Action Quote by Anonymous

It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Odysseus sees reality as the situation or problem before him; Achilles sees it as something in himself, and the problem is to identify himself…

— Cedric H Whitman

“of us is the Oedipus here? Which the Sphinx? It would seem to be a rendezvous of questions and notes of interrogation. And could…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

— Tom Robbins

“But when Odysseus rose, that man of many devices, fixing his down-cast eyes on the ground he stood: nor his scepter swayed, either this…

— Homer

“In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony as to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Odysseus is the statesman of the Iliad, the man in the middle, keeping what balance he can among the parties. He shows himself at…

— Eva Brann

“The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the…

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

“act as if the maxim of your action were to become by your will a general law of nature.”

— Immanuel Kant

I'd rather be like Odysseus than someone who was handed everything.

— Mindy Kaling

“There, he had learnt to distinguish between the steadiness of principle and the obstinacy of self-will, between the darings of heedlessness and the resolution…

— Jane Austen

“Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana