Marcus Aurelius Quotes

γεγόναμεν γὰρ πρὸς συνεργίαν ὡς πόδες, ὡς χεῖρες, ὡς βλέφαρα, ὡς οἱ στοῖχοι τῶν ἄνω καὶ κάτω ὀδόντων. τὸ οὖν ἀντιπράσσειν ἀλλήλοις παρὰ φύσιν.

Marcus Aurelius

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• We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Same

• I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Beginning
  • Failure
  • End

• I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Green
  • Eat
  • Vegetables

• Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Style
  • Jazz
  • Him

• Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Debt
  • Ceiling
  • Trigger

• In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Life
  • Details
  • Negotiation

• I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • Why
  • Son
  • Regret

• I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Think
  • Brand
  • Luxury

• It just feels good to know the work I did, people like it and love it - and continue to like and love it. It makes me feel real good that, after 20 years, 'Regulate' is still in heavy rotation all over the United States and all over the world.

  

  Warren G
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Mind
  • Man
  • New

• I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Up
  • Great
  • School

• On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Day
  • See
  • Gloomy

• I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway, but I would not like him personally. He was a stupid macho person who believed in shooting animals for fun, but that book was incredible!

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Book
  • Fun
  • Wife

• My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Writing
  • Old
  • Old Days

• If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Man
  • Democracy
  • saw

• Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Government
  • Prejudice

• I love art, but not in a cliched, luvvie way.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Art
  • Way
  • Cliched

• I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Good
  • Men
  • Spiritual

• So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world.

  

  James Cameron
  • People
  • World
  • Present

• You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • World
  • Future

• In North America, what happens often is that they put race before nationhood. Everyone here is Hispanic-American, Chinese-American, African-American. But really, we're just North Americans of all these different descents. The only time I notice North Americans becoming national is when a war happens or a crisis happens.

  

  Mark Bradford
  • Time
  • Different
  • American

• In 1989, my father died after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer's disease. All four of his siblings followed him into the shadow lands of that fascinating, maddening affliction.

  

  Charlie Pierce
  • Father
  • Struggle
  • Shadow

• γεγόναμεν γὰρ πρὸς συνεργίαν ὡς πόδες, ὡς χεῖρες, ὡς βλέφαρα, ὡς οἱ στοῖχοι τῶν ἄνω καὶ κάτω ὀδόντων. τὸ οὖν ἀντιπράσσειν ἀλλήλοις παρὰ φύσιν.

  

  Marcus Aurelius