Appropriate Quote by Bertrand Russell

“No philosophy is cheaper or more vulgar than that which traces all history to diversities of ethnological type and blend, and is ever presenting…

— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

“Stoicism is about Joy, Serenity, Meaning and Purpose. It is about being a useful and important member of society.”

— Patrick Ussher

“The city-state was the means by which the Greek consciously strove to make the life both of the community and of the individual more…

— H.D.F. Kitto

“Stoicism, hedonism, and anarchism are, at their roots, urges for control, for the ‘I’ to dominate the other, if not the world. Dependency on…

— T.M. Doran

Stoicism is a philosophy designed for the masses, and if it has to be simplified a bit to reach the masses, so be it.

— Ryan Holiday

“The Stoics, by contrast, believed that we are essentially social creatures, with a ‘natural affection’ and ‘affinity’ for all people. This forms the basis…

— Donald J. Robertson

“B.C.)—Stoicism stressed the search for inner peace and ethical certainty despite the apparent chaos of the external world by emulating in one’s personal conduct…

— Marcus Aurelius

“The nature of civilisation everywhere was such that, even with the Greeks, it diverted people’s minds away from the reality of death.”

— Antal Szerb

“Socialism, Puritanism, Philistinism, Christianity— he saw them all as allotropic forms of democracy, as variations upon the endless struggle of quantity against quality, of…

— H.L. Mencken

“the fact that it took the rise of democracies and otherwise open societies at Athens and elsewhere to create the climate in which public…

— Aristotle

“Homeric Greece and everything that philosophy after Plato stood for was, however superficially cordial and continuous, in fact deeply antagonistic, if often at the…

— Walter J. Ong

“However, the enormous superiority of contemplation over activity of any kind, action not excluded, is not Christian in origin. We find it in Plato’s…

— Hannah Arendt