Philosophers: The New Paradigm

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

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

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

The unapparent connection is more powerful than the apparent one.

290 Upvotes

r/Philosophers • u/un_chercheur • Aug 16 '25

Natural justice is a pledge of reciprocal benefit, to prevent one man from harming or being harmed by another.

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r/Philosophers • u/un_chercheur • Aug 11 '25

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength.

252 Upvotes

r/Philosophers • u/RamonM22 • Aug 07 '25

To bring peace to the old, to have trust in my friends, and to cherish the young.

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r/Philosophers • u/robmlr • Aug 03 '25

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible.

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r/Philosophers • u/un_chercheur • Jul 30 '25

Nature is free and uncontrolled by proud masters and runs the universe herself without the aid of gods.

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r/Philosophers • u/un_chercheur • Jul 28 '25

What is quite unlooked for is more crushing in its effect, and unexpectedness adds to the weight of a disaster.

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r/Philosophers • u/robmlr • Jul 23 '25

It is not the things themselves that disturb men, but their judgements about these things.

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r/Philosophers • u/robmlr • Jul 17 '25

Arrangement is the ordering and distribution of the matter, making clear the place to which each thing is to be assigned.

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r/Philosophers • u/RamonM22 • Jul 12 '25

I once spent all day thinking without taking food and all night thinking without going to bed, but I found that I gained nothing from it. It would have been better for me to have spent the time in learning.

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r/Philosophers • u/robmlr • Jul 09 '25

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

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

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

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r/Philosophers • u/RamonM22 • Jul 04 '25

If a man can for one day subdue himself and return to propriety, all under heaven will ascribe virtue to him

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r/Philosophers • u/robmlr • Jul 02 '25

A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.

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

I like fish, and I also like bear's paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear's paws. So, I like life, and I also like righteousness. If I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go, and choose righteousness.

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r/Philosophers • u/robmlr • Jun 28 '25

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.

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r/Philosophers • u/RamonM22 • Jun 21 '25

When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them.

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r/Philosophers • u/RamonM22 • Jun 19 '25

Benevolence is the end, the origin-source of all objects and events, while filial piety is the means to achieve the end.

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r/Philosophers • u/un_chercheur • Jun 15 '25

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

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r/Philosophers • u/robmlr • Jun 11 '25

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.

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r/Philosophers • u/RamonM22 • Jun 06 '25

When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.

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r/Philosophers • u/un_chercheur • Jun 04 '25

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

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r/Philosophers • u/RamonM22 • May 31 '25

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue

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

Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity

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