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“The Stoic approach is the lighthouse that guides us amidst the tempest, leading us to the land of dreams crafted in the forge of the unyielding present.”
Source: The Power of the Present: A Stoic's Guide to Unyielding Focus
“The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary through despair.”
“The stoic contemplates fallen leaves; the epicure rakes them into a loveseat.”
Source: Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
“The Stoic discipline of action, which is connected to the virtue of justice, says that we ought to treat others fairly and we should engage in social and political activity. This is further supported by the Stoic idea of cosmopolitanism, and by the famous "circles of concern" identified by Hierocles, who counseled that we should refer to other people as brothers and sisters, to constantly remind ourselves that we are members of the same human family.”
“The Stoic philosopher and playwright Seneca is said to have owned five hundred tripod tables with ivory legs—no small irony, since he was a vocal critic of the empire's extravagances.”
Source: A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
“The Stoic’s path includes walking against the gusts of a tempest, unswayed and unbroken. As pilgrims in this world, we are not immune to the winds. Yet, we may choose to remain unwavering, bearing the brunt of the gusts with equanimity.”
Source: The Power of the Present: A Stoic's Guide to Unyielding Focus
“The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.”
“The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.”
Source: Lazarre
“The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.”
“The Stoics believed that the universe operates according to a rational and purposeful order, and by aligning ourselves with this natural law, we achieve inner peace and harmony.”
Source: Modern Stoicism: Overcome Life’s Challenges and Discover Peace, Joy, and Emotional Strength Through Ancient Philosophy
“The stoics divided philosophy into three branches: logic, physics, and ethics. Logic covered not only the rules of correct argumentation, but also grammar, linguistics, rhetorical theory, epistemology, and all the tools that might be needed to discover the truth of any matter. Physics was concerned with the nature of the world and the laws that govern it, and so included ontology and theology as well as what we would recognize as physics, astronomy, and cosmology. Ethics was concerned with how to achieve happiness, or how to live a fulfilled and flourishing life as a human being. A stoic sage was supposed to be fully expert in all three aspects.”
Source: Meditations
“The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.”
Source: Pensées
“The Stoics thought that a fundamental insight into human life is that some things are up to us and others are not, the famous dichotomy of control. Up to us are our judgments, decisions, and actions; everything else is not up to us, because it is influenced by external factors.”
“The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible”
Source: Blake: The Complete Poems
“The stolen ideas, words, and quotes do not make you, the unique author. You are only a thief of the literature, and pseudo-intellectual.”
“The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can.”
“The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.”
“The stomach is a slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.”
“The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master”
“The stomach is not the only vital organ that hungers.”
Source: The Tsar of Love and Techno
“The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man's brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased.”
“The stomach is the seat of all feeling. The heart is the seat of the conscience. The mind is the seat of the ego. Your body is the seat of the soul. “When a man goes out in the night and looks up at the universe, he is observing a mirror of himself. The universe in us is a reflection of the universe we see out our eyes.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“The stomach is the seat of all feeling. The heart is the seat of the conscience. The mind is the seat of the ego. Your body is the seat of the soul. When a man goes out in the night and looks up at the universe, he is observing a mirror of himself. The universe within us, is a reflection of the universe we see out our eyes.”
“The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.”
“The stomach, liver, lungs and brain are suffering for want of deep, full inspirations of air which would electrify the blood and impart to it a bright, lively color, and which alone can keep it pure, and give tone and vigor to every part of the living machinery.”
“The stomach, when we lie down to rest, should have its work done, that it may enjoy rest, as well as other portions of the body. The work of digestion should not be carried on through any period of the sleeping hours.”
Source: Healthful Living
“The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.”
“The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.”
“The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won’t end because we run out of oil.”
“The Stone Age gave us arrow heads and eventually knives, and that allowed us to kill animals in ways you couldn't before, and once you had them you were able to remove the skin and bones.”
“The stone has no uncertainties, no urge to communicate, and is eternally the same for thousands of years, while I am only a passing phenomenon which bursts into all kinds of emotions, like a flame that flares up quickly and then goes out.”
“The stone in quarries is found to be of different and unlike qualities. In some it is soft, in others it is medium, in still others it is hard as in lava quarries. There are also numerous other kinds: for instance, in Campania, red and black tufas; in Umbria, Picenum, and Venetia, white tufa which can be cut with a toothed saw like wood.”
“The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who's to say? In the hush your heart sounds like a black cricket.”
Source: New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012
“The stone is strong. Bran told himself, the roots of the trees go deep, and under the ground the Kings of Winter sit their thrones. So long as those remained, Winterfell remained. It was not dead, just broken. Like me, he thought. I'm not dead either.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“The stone itself bled the malice of ancient things that had languished in darkness for centuries – consciousnesses that did not slumber, minds that did not dream.”
Source: Sorcery of Thorns
“The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.”
“The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.
~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda”
Source: Living Enlightenment
“The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.”
“The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.”
“The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical probabilities. The ladder that Descartes, Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz erected in order to scale the heavens rests upon a continually shifting, unstable foundation.”
Source: Mathematics in Western Culture
“The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss.”
Source: Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, newly corrected and ed. by H.M.W. [2 issues].
“The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.”
“The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone.”
“The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.”
“The Stone the Builders Rejected.”
Source: The People of the Abyss (Illustrated)
“The stone throwing and house burning is no longer a face of Kenya . Kenya is now a destination for investment and tourism.”
“The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousands of restless, rolling Stones . . . to Saturn . . . to Uranus, to Pluto . . . rolling on out to the stars . . . outward bound to the ends of the Universe.”
“The stone wall was at her back, a door in the wall on her left and bluebells grew on either side of the seat.”
Source: Love The Gift
“The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.”
Source: Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica
“The stone you took away from a beach will long for that beach because it belongs there!”