Advantage Quote by Epictetus

“The person who desires to leave things better than he found them, who does more than his share, who is not attached to rewards,…

— Wu Wei

Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage,…

— Adam Smith

Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes…

— Ernest Hello

“Once the primary bonds which gave security to the individual are severed, once the individual faces the world outside of himself as a completely…

— Erich Fromm

“One creates ownership and then does egoism towards it, that is why suffering arises. No one is a boss/owner of anyone. Whose things and…

— Dada Bhagwan

In the measure to which a man cuts off and humbles his own will, he proceeds toward success. But insofar as he stubbornly guards…

— Ephrem the Syrian

“It is reason which breeds pride and reflection which fortifies it; reason which turns man inward into himself; reason which separates him from everything…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“A man may possess the disposition without its producing any good result.”

— Aristotle

The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures--these are the painful portion…

— Howard Mumford Jones

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

— Bernard Lonergan

“An individual can be hurt in countless ways by other men's irrationality, dishonesty, injustice. Above all, he can be disappointed, perhaps grievously, by the…

— Leonard Peikoff

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

— Arthur Schopenhauer