Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

Seneca the Younger

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• The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Truth
  • End

• The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Great
  • Diversity
  • Filmmaking

• I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • Live
  • Age

• It's funny how you can be thought of as somebody who humanizes bad guys, and I'll take that, but it is something that gave me pause, and I started speaking to my team about finding a good guy.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Positive
  • Transformation

• For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Life
  • Me
  • My Life

• Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Me
  • Space
  • Go

• God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Light
  • Darkness

• Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• There's more than one way to sense violence.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Way
  • Violence
  • Sense

• Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Time

• Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.

  

  Lydia Lunch

• For me, I think everybody with half a heart tries to do their best to do their part of good during the holiday season.

  

  Darren Criss
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Holiday

• One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.

  

  Andrew Greeley
  • Serious

• I am the oldest of three. I was in charge of making sure my brother and sister were OK and also entertained so they didn't bother my mother, who had a job at home.

  

  Bill Irwin
  • Home
  • Job
  • Mother

• I always tell the story of 'Irreplaceable.' I initially wrote 'Irreplaceable' with myself in mind, with plans of it being my record. I love that record; however, what I realised about that record was that though given the circumstances of that situation - men and women are not that different - when you sing about it, it changes things, you know?

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

  

  George Carlin
  • May
  • House
  • Evil

• Developing prayer fitness is similar to developing physical fitness: we must follow a pattern in order to stay balanced.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • Prayer
  • Fitness

• As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Wind
  • Blame
  • Remains

• True love's the gift which God has givenTo man alone beneath the heaven:It is not fantasy's hot fire,Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;It liveth not in fierce desire,With dead desire it doth not die;It is the secret sympathy,The silver link, the silken tie,Which heart to heart, and mind to mindIn body and in soul can bind.

  

  Walter Scott
  • God
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I think you form a bond of different personalities where even without saying a word you challenge each other to be good. You don't want to be the weak link in the chain.

  

  Don Sutton
  • Good
  • Different
  • Challenge

• Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Natural
  • Causes
  • Effects

• Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study of ultimate (evolutionary) causes, the subject of natural history.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • History
  • Study
  • Causes

• Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Causes
  • Wishes
  • Chain