Deliberate Quote by John Dewey

“They strive to attain their wishes by every available means, instructing and compelling themselves to dishonest and difficult acts. And when their labour is…

— Seneca

“Anybody with leisure can do that who is willing to begin where everything ought to be begun--that is, at the beginning. Nothing worth calling…

— George MacDonald

“All social orders command their members to imbibe in pipe dreams of posterity, the mirage of immortality, to keep them ahead of the extinction…

— Thomas Ligotti

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

— Peter J. Carroll

“Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter…

— Immanuel Kant

All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do…

— Lydia M. Child

We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions…

— Nhat Hanh

All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good veryinadequate to their aspirations. They do so…

— Lydia M Child

Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live…

— Eric Hoffer

All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must follow incommunicable…

— James Sharp

“The notion of nothingness is not characteristic of laboring humanity: those who toil have neither time nor inclination to weigh their dust; they resign…

— Emil Cioran