Philosophy-of-mind Quote by Epictetus Download Open image ““We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.”” — Epictetus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Philosophy-of-mind
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“no one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.” — Paulo Coelho Veronika Decides to Die Copy Share Image
“No matter what choices we make in life, suffering is always a part of what follows.” — Christine Johnson Copy Share Image
“Never consider another to be the cause of your suffering. Suffering is always the results of one’s own deeds or faults.” — SWAMI SHARNANAND JI Copy Share Image
“I don’t believe in the curative powers of suffering and tragedy; they happen because they’re part of life and shouldn’t be seen as a… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Suffering has brought clarity into my life. Maybe the things that have happened to me are punishment for what I did in a previous… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“In the end, man is an event which cannot judge itself, but, for better or worse, is left to the judgment of others” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Epictetus, who said, “It's not events, but our opinions about them, which cause us suffering.” — Daniel Coyle Copy Share Image
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Life isn´t about what happens to us. It´s about how we perceive what happens to us.” — Taro Gold Copy Share Image
“We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“When the earth falls into the sun...when the Taj Mahal, Mozart and the Mona Lisa burn to a crisp...what difference will it make.” — Robert E Redding Copy Share Image
“Odd, though, all these dealings of mine with myself. First I’ve agreed a principle with myself, now I’m making out a case to myself,… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
“The existence of consciousness is both one of the most familiar and one of the most astounding things about the world. No conception of… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“Don't ever get to the point where you feel like you know it all. Life still has so much more to teach you.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“Representation is a process of informational triangulation. Its aim is the specification of distal stimuli. It achieves that aim by corralling the output of… — Dan Lloyd Copy Share Image
“I feel the reason we are all here, our purpose of being, is to help others find their little piece of happiness and heaven… — Ken Poirot Copy Share Image
“Happiness is a momentary illusion created by momentary neurochemical impulses. Contentment on the other hand, is not a momentary impulse, it is a broader… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“This 'web of discourses' as Robyn called it...is as much a biological product as any of the other constructions to be found in the… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“The reason I said earlier that the mind is neither the Cartesian, highly intellectualized, cranium-confined firm-and-frozen ego, nor the self-effaced, world-immersed, flowing, field-like non-thingy… — István Aranyosi Copy Share Image
