Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm definitely a foodie.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.
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I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.
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It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lack such gravitas. Luckily, there's something even better: evidence, logic, and argument.
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Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
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Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years – the mind anyway is subject to conditions.
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I don't watch a lot of TV.
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The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.
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Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.
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Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.
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Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice; being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.
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A person who is shallow aspires to depth; one who is ugly aspires to beauty; one who is narrow aspires to breadth; one who is poor aspires to wealth; one who is humble aspires to esteem. Whatever one lacks in oneself he must seek outside.
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I found people were telling stories to themselves without knowing it. It seemed to me that people were living a sort of small sermon that they believed in, but at the same time it was a fairy tale. Selfish desires, along with one or two highly suspect elevated thoughts. They secretly regard themselves as works of art, valuable in themselves.
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We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.
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It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.
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I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.
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I like Canada. The fans here are great. It's always good to come up here with some good energy.
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But science sets out confidently on the endeavor finally to know the thing in itself, and even though we realize that this ideal goal can never be completely reached, still we struggle on towards it untiringly. And we know that at every step of the way each effort will be richly rewarded.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
