Quotes

A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.

What is philosophy for? →

Published August 31, 2022  ·  All posts on Aug 31  ·  ,

Philosophy isn’t a parlor trick or made for show. It’s not concerned with words, but with facts. It’s not employed for some pleasure before the day is spent, or to relieve the uneasiness of our leisure. It shapes and builds up the soul, it gives order to life, guides actions, shows what should and shouldn’t be done—it sits at the rudder steering our course as we vacillate in uncertainties. Without it, no one can live without fear or free from care. Countless things happen every hour that require advice, and such advise is to be sought out in philosophy.

~ Seneca

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Two guides →

Published August 30, 2022  ·  All posts on Aug 30  ·  

Two ways exist to guide human activity. One is to force a person to act against his wishes; The other is to guide a person’s wishes, to persuade him with reasoning. One is the way of violence: It is used by ignorant people, and it leads to complete disappointment. The other is supported by experience, and is always successful.

~ Abraham Comb

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Listen →

Published August 29, 2022  ·  All posts on Aug 29  ·  ,

To have a dialog
First: Ask a question
Then: Listen

~ Antonio Machado

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Other people’s thoughts →

Published August 28, 2022  ·  All posts on Aug 28  ·  ,

For the most part, false and harmful opinions are distributed and supported by influence. We are too likely to accept the views and thoughts of other people without trying to investigate them deeper and further ourselves. Unimportant people are those who accept other people’s thoughts without developing them themselves.

~ Leo Tolstoy

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Making choices →

Published August 27, 2022  ·  All posts on Aug 27  ·  , ,

To create art we make choices. We do it with intent, seeking to make a change for certain people. When we find that our choices didn’t succeed, vulnerability with lots of personal angst is an available choice. The alternative is to learn from what didn’t resonate. Was it our choices in how we did the work, or did we bring this work to the wrong audience? You are not your work. Your work is a series of choices made with generous intent to cause something to happen. We can always learn to make better choices.

~ Seth Godin

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Tradition →

Published August 26, 2022  ·  All posts on Aug 26  ·  

For the majority of mankind, religion is a habit, or, more precisely, tradition is their religion. Though it seems strange, I think that the first step to moral perfection is your liberation from the religion in which you were raised. Not a single person has come to perfection except by following this way.

~ Henry David Thoreau

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The more you say →

Published August 25, 2022  ·  All posts on Aug 25  ·  ,

The more you say, the more likely you are to blow past opportunities, ignore feedback, and cause yourself suffering. The inexperienced and fearful talk to reassure themselves. The ability to listen, to deliberately keep out of a conversation and subsist without its validity is rare. Silence is a way to build strength and self-sufficiency.

~ Ryan Holiday

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The moral →

Published August 24, 2022  ·  All posts on Aug 24  ·  ,

The moral? To recognize that our best chance of contentment lies in taking up the wisdom offered to us in coded form through our coughs, allergies, social gaffes and emotional betrayals, and to avoid the ingratitude of those who blame the peas, the bores, the time and the weather.

~ Alaine De Botton

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Mistakes →

Published August 23, 2022  ·  All posts on Aug 23  ·  ,

Not to accept your mistakes is to increase them.

~ Leo Tolstoy

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Capability →

Published August 22, 2022  ·  All posts on Aug 22  ·  

Every person has within himself the capability to understand the life of all humanity. This capability is hidden deep in the soul, but it exists, and sooner or later, a person will find it.

~ Edward Carpenter

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