Top Stoicism Quotes

Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

Stoicism Definition

(n.) The opinions and maxims of the Stoics.

(n.) A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than ? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than ? Was h...

The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.

Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and...

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

I smile to catch the piranhas from swimming out of my mouth.

Someone has to be stoic, for the sake of, in spite of, and in the face of all those who are, not. Someone, has to be serious. Someone has to choose to forgo choice, so that there is an option left for...

All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.

I have always swung back and forth between alienation and relatedness. As a child, I would run away from the beatings, from the obscene words, and always knew that if I could run far enough, then any...

Når det kommer til stykket, er jeg ikke sikker på om De har moralsk rett til å blande dem i saken. Dessuten tror jeg fremdeles ikke det er noen fare på ferde. Etter min mening er det absurd å gå fra k...

Man is mostly a collection of emotions, most of which he would do better not to be feeling.

You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole cosmos, to consider everlasting tim...

True affluence is not needing anything.

He saw and recognised the visible and he sought his place in this world. He did not seek reality; his goal was not on any other side. The world was beautiful when looked at in this way - without any s...

In Tsurani culture, forgiveness was simply a less shameful form of weakness than capitulation.

These...xistential qualms you suffer, they just mean you're truly human. I aked how I might remedy them. You don´t remedy them. You live thru them.

Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.

The first and most important field of philosophy is the application of principles such as Do not lie. Next come the proofs, such as why we should not lie. The third field supports and articulates the...