Books Quote by Epictetus

“You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp its seat, and rule…

— Anonymous

“there was dignity to be found in stoicism,”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I felt convinced that however it might have been in former times, in the present stage of the world, no man's faculties could be…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“We Stoics are not subjects of a despot: each of us lays claim to his own freedom.”

— Seneca

“There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis,…

— David Hume

“All knowledge, we find, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs, and if these are rejected, nothing is left.”

— Bertrand Russell

“This is why the apostles get jailed or stoned or hauled before various proconsuls and vice-whatevers. Not because they’re advancing some kind of propositional…

— Sarah Arthur

“The moments of refinement conceal a death-principle: nothing is more fragile than subtlety. The abuse of it leads to the catechisms, an end to…

— Emil Cioran

“...Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, and to institute a court of justice, by…

— Immanuel Kant

“Above all, the Stoics sought wisdom, a condition that I myself hope to achieve after I stop wrecking and burning things.”

— James Morrow

“We will always have enough reasons to justify what we believe and what we do not believe.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“For he, Adeimantus, whose mind is fixed upon true being, has surely no time to look down upon the affairs of earth, or to…

— Plato