Top Stoicism Quotes

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

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.

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

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...

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

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...

Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be...

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...

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...

Stoical' is the best word to describe her reaction to these compliments, Emma putting up with them as of they were one of my unfortunate foibles.

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

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...

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

True affluence is not needing anything.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

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...

Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends. Or perhaps especially to his friends, whose good opinion of him, he might feel, would not...

Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached yo...