Epictetus Quotes
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I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
Ulysses S. Grant -
I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
Garry Shandling -
I think that's a weak excuse, to say because a rapper's getting older that he ain't got it no more. Nah. Don't go by that philosophy. Let's just recognize that talent is within.
Raekwon -
Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
Walter Kirn -
As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than either 'Why?' or 'Not.'
Rachel Sklar -
We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.
Hannes Alfven
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Even the best scientists are often insecure and feel the need for recognition.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
Edna Ferber -
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
Iris Murdoch -
I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.
A. Balasubramaniam -
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
Galileo Galilei -
Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.
Eddie Izzard
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I study a lot of philosophy. I want to be an example of how to enjoy this success, and that's exactly what I've done. I've enjoyed every moment.
Flip Wilson -
So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the elements and what they teach us, and to each other.
M. Night Shyamalan -
I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.
Jack Ma -
I think whatever dress you wear, people will criticise you. Different people have different opinions.
Irina Shayk -
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
Maimonides -
I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.
Elizabeth Edwards -
And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.
Damon Wayans -
Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through the device of currency depreciation for the sake of remaining in office, the wiser ones will prefer to keep as much of their wealth in the most stable and marketable forms possible - forms which only the precious metals provide.
Elgin Groseclose -
The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.
Epictetus