Freedom and happiness Quote by Chuck Chakrapani

The Stoics thought that a fundamental insight into human life is that some things are up to us and others are not, the famous…

— Massimo Pigliucci

“The philosophy asserts that virtue (meaning, chiefly, the four cardinal virtues of self-control, courage, justice, and wisdom) is happiness, and it is our perceptions…

— Ryan Holiday

“For the Stoics, then, our judgments about the world are all that we can control, but also all that we need to control in…

— Oliver Burkeman

“One is a careful distinction between things which are in our power and things which are not. Desire and dislike, opinion and affection, are…

— Marcus Aurelius

“The single most important practice in Stoic philosophy is differentiating between what we can change and what we can’t. What we have influence over…

— Ryan Holiday

To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not…

— Julian Baggini

“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

“(On stoicism) "As a matter of fact, the experiment has already started. Yesterday at lunch I had a smaller piece of pecan pie than…

— James Morrow

Stoicism is of no use to me whatsoever. What I'm a big believer in is talking about everything until you're blue in the face.

— David Shields

The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact…

— Roger Avary