Quote by William B. Irvine Download Open image ““he is blessed who dies not late but well.”) It”” — William B. Irvine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“A truly blessed person is one who finally understands that he has been given a second chance... and may not have another.” — Samuel Wardwell Copy Share Image
“And in blessing him I was blessed, And in comforting him I was comforted…” — Jessica Coupe Copy Share Image
“Blessed be the soul, and the Lord that keeps it in order; blessed be the day, and the Lord that drives it away.” — Tim Powers Copy Share Image
“There is no salvation for him who thus suffereth from himself, unless it be speedy death.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I DECLARE it is not too late to accomplish everything God has placed in my heart. I have not missed my window of opportunity.… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“There a painless death awaits him who can no longer bear the sorrows of this life.” — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
“It is too late only with the signature of death. With this clarity, the responsibility for satisfaction can arrive at any moment.” — Lenfantvivant Copy Share Image
“Dying, he has that look dying people get in their eyes sometimes, happy and sad, tired and spiritually blessed, all at the same time.” — Daniel Wallace Copy Share Image
“We are therefore blessed with powerful minds yet at the same time cursed, not only to die, but to know that we must.” — Stephen Cave Copy Share Image
“Pre-Socratic philosophy begins ... with the discovery of Nature; Socratic philosophy begins with the discovery of man's soul."3” — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
“According to Seneca, “A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is.” He therefore recommends that we “do away with… — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
“For the Stoics, however, the near impossibility of becoming a sage is not a problem. They talk about sages primarily so they will have… — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
“Indeed, pursuing pleasure, Seneca warns, is like pursuing a wild beast: On being captured, it can turn on us and tear us to pieces.… — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
“Your primary desire, says Epictetus, should be your desire not to be frustrated by forming desires you won’t be able to fulfill.” — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
“reason tends to be the servant rather than the master of desire.” — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
“Whenever you undertake an activity in which public failure is a possibility, you are likely to experience butterflies in your stomach. I mentioned above… — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
“They warn us to be careful in choosing our associates; other people, after all, have the power to shatter our tranquility—if we let them.” — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
“Stoic tranquility was a psychological state marked by the absence of negative emotions, such as grief, anger, and anxiety, and the presence of positive… — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
“Before Socrates, philosophers were primarily interested in explaining the world around them and the phenomena of that world—in doing what we would now call… — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
