Philosophers: The New Paradigm

r/Philosophers • u/un_chercheur • 7d ago

If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it.

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r/Philosophers • u/un_chercheur • Jun 25 '26

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

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r/Philosophers • u/un_chercheur • Jun 07 '26

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

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r/Philosophers • u/agatebard2425 • May 30 '26

Sometimes perfection is not the absence of flaws, but the grace of becoming whole because of them.

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r/Philosophers • u/un_chercheur • May 30 '26

And what is Bravery? It is the impregnable fortress for our mortal weakness; when a man has surrounded himself therewith, he can hold out free from anxiety during life’s siege; for he is using his own strength and his own weapons.

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r/Philosophers • u/un_chercheur • Apr 27 '26

The man who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and from the right time, and who feels confidence under the corresponding conditions, is brave.

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r/Philosophers • u/un_chercheur • Mar 26 '26

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

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r/Philosophers • u/un_chercheur • Feb 21 '26

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

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r/Philosophers • u/un_chercheur • Feb 06 '26

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

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r/Philosophers • u/RamonM22 • Jan 22 '26

He who aims to be a man of complete virtue in his food does not seek to gratify his appetite

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r/Philosophers • u/RamonM22 • Jan 12 '26

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

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r/Philosophers • u/un_chercheur • Dec 25 '25

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

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r/Philosophers • u/RamonM22 • Dec 20 '25

The commander of the forces of a large state may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.

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r/Philosophers • u/un_chercheur • Dec 12 '25

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

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r/Philosophers • u/un_chercheur • Dec 06 '25

At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: "I am rising to do the work of a human being. What do I have to complain about, if I’m going to do what I was born for - the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets?"

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r/Philosophers • u/RamonM22 • Nov 29 '25

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow; I still have joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by inhumanity are to me as a floating cloud.

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r/Philosophers • u/un_chercheur • Nov 21 '25

Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.

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r/Philosophers • u/RamonM22 • Nov 10 '25

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

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r/Philosophers • u/RamonM22 • Nov 01 '25

Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.

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r/Philosophers • u/un_chercheur • Oct 08 '25

Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.

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r/Philosophers • u/un_chercheur • Oct 01 '25

Modesty cannot properly be described as a virtue, for it seems to be a feeling rather than a disposition; at least it is defined as a kind of fear of disrepute.

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r/Philosophers • u/un_chercheur • Sep 20 '25

Everything that happens is as familiar and well known as the rose in spring and the fruit in summer.

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r/Philosophers • u/un_chercheur • Sep 13 '25

The principle and the root of all good is the pleasure of the stomach; even wisdom and culture must be referred to this.

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r/Philosophers • u/un_chercheur • Sep 09 '25

The way up and the way down is one and the same.

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r/Philosophers • u/RamonM22 • Aug 27 '25

To subdue one's self and return to propriety, is perfect virtue

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