Quotes Tagged With :stoics

Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself....

Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t....

And here lies the essential difference between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the....

Well, that's what I still think, but I am in a rut at work--I hate my job,' I said, allowing my emotions....

In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naive naturalism of many parts of those....

But if God and immortality be repudiated, what is left? That is the question usually thrown at the atheist's....

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that....

For the Stoics, then, our judgments about the world are all that we can control, but also all that we....