Action Quote by Epictetus

Without philosophy, action has no meaning.

— Sebastien Foucan

There is nothing- No life, No joy, No pain- There is nothing save opinion, And opinion be damned.

— Stephen Crane

“...For action has no sense. It merely binds one to existence. All existence, however, has no sense. Evil is interpreted as that which leads…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice in the…

— Marcus Aurelius

Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is…

— Hermann Hesse

I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not…

— William Godwin

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows…

— Buddha

Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and…

— Ida Tarbell

Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said, a real power that…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

What has actually to be said about the Cause of everything is this. Since it is the Cause of all beings, we should posit…

— Pope Dionysius

“Every gesture, however simple, violates an inner secret. Every gesture is a revolutionary act; an exile, perhaps, from the true ... of our intentions.…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I believe — I daily find it proved — that we can get nothing in this world worth keeping, not so much as a…

— Charlotte Brontë