Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.

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• I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Guy
  • Play
  • Spiritual

• I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • American
  • Law

• 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
  • Philosophy
  • Getting Older

• I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Inspiration
  • Look
  • Philosophy

• Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • History
  • Science
  • Philosophy

• My philosophy is to be me.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Me
  • Philosophy

• 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
  • Real
  • Age
  • Feeling

• As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than either 'Why?' or 'Not.'

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Why
  • Philosophy
  • Said

• 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
  • Remember
  • Today
  • Science

• Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Different
  • Words
  • Religion

• What I love about Popsicle and the moments I can be with Camden is that their whole philosophy is family and these moments that it can create to just sit with my son, read a comic book or go outside on a hot day, take a swim and have a Popsicle treat with him.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Family
  • Book
  • Moments

• 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
  • Good
  • Business
  • Philosophy

• Wagner's philosophy had absolutely nothing to do with Bruckner. Bruckner hadn't written a single word against Jews. Wagner's book on the Jews was one of the most infamous books of the 19th century.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Book
  • Single
  • Philosophy

• The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Acting
  • Philosophy
  • Connection

• People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Free
  • Philosophy

• Given (Scotty's Paving) circumstances, I don't think the Fiscal Court should hold (the company's) feet to the fire.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Fire
  • Circumstances

• Well, on tour I eat terribly, so I balance that by running a lot. And then I started to run with my fans in certain cities. It sounds very nerdy and un-rock n' roll, but I like it. It's fun, and it's better than meeting fans in weird, awkward circumstances. So I take them running with me.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Fun
  • Running
  • Rock

• Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Philosophy
  • Doors
  • Shame

• You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Up
  • Work
  • Career

• As daughters of God we are each unique and different in our circumstances and experiences. And yet our part matters—because we matter.

  

  Elaine S. Dalton
  • God
  • Circumstances
  • Experiences

• There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

  

  Charles A. Reich
  • Past
  • Culture
  • Revolution

• Part of what's cool about being an actor or being in this industry, frankly, is to be able to travel to distant lands. That's part of the deal. I always thought when I was growing up, "I wanna be an actor and go see the world.'

  

  Lake Bell
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Philosophy
  • Circumstances
  • Blunt