Philosophy Quote by Epicurus — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”

“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”

“I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)”

“Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.”

“The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.”

“If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.”

“Abundance is not the absence of scarcity; it is the presence of abundant mentality.”

“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”

“If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?”

“I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.”

“Man, consider first what the matter is (which you propose to do), then your own nature also, what it is able to bear. If you are a wrestler, look at your shoulders, your thighs, your loins: for different men are naturally formed for different things.”