Quotes by Philosophers - Page 60

Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza
Acceptance makes any event put on a new face.
Henry S. Haskins
What must be shall be and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
G.K. Chesterton
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
Boethius
A flower falls even though we love it. A weed grows even though we don't love it.
Dōgen
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
Eric Hoffer
Better to accept whatever happens.
Horace
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield I have learned is to come back again.
Lao Tzu
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.
Boethius
Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon
Often the prudent far from making their destinies succumb to them.
Voltaire
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another not because he does not feel them but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
Aristotle
To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Almost any event will put on a new face when received with cheerful acceptance.
Henry S. Haskins
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.
William James
The great soul surrenders itself to fate.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
Michel de Montaigne
Science says: "We must live " and seeks the means of prolonging increasing facilitating and amplifying life of making it tolerable and acceptable wisdom says: "We must die " and seeks how to make us die well.
Miguel de Unamuno
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
Horace
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
If you are wise live as you can if you cannot live as you would.
Baltasar Gracián
Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.
Denis de Rougemont
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
Marcus Aurelius
Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.
Marcus Aurelius
The grass must bend when the wind blows across it.
Confucius
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
When a dog runs at you whistle for him.
Henry David Thoreau
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here is a rule to remember when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is a misfortune " but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
Marcus Aurelius
The point... is to dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect to call off the thoughts when turning upon disagreeable objects and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.
Abraham Tucker
Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.
Alan Watts
It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.
Charles Sanders Peirce
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.
Cicero
Better is the enemy of the good.
Voltaire
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.
Vauvenargues
Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real life is to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
Bertrand Russell
Man adapts himself to everything to the best and the worst.
José Ortega y Gasset
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome stubbornness is stupid.
Simone de Beauvoir
What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.
Friedrich Hölderlin
Make a virtue of necessity.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.
Marcus Aurelius
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace making the best of circumstances.
Aristotle
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
Chuang-tzu
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.
David Hume
Ask not that events should happen as you will but let your will be that events should happen as they do and you shall have peace.
Epictetus
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
A man must live in the world and make the best of it such as it is.
Michel de Montaigne
It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
No man can have society upon his own terms.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man by necessity uncertain.
Erich Fromm
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.
Publilius Syrus
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way but must accept his lot calmly even if they roll a few more upon it.
Albert Schweitzer
It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.
Simone de Beauvoir
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural death is the obscene mystery the ultimate affront the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Susan Sontag
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard