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

“Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.”

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

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

“Loss is nothing else but change,and change is Natures delight.”

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.”

“Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.”

“The wild worship of lawlessness and the materialist worship of law end in the same void. Nietzsche scales staggering mountains, but he turns up ultimately in Tibet. He sits down beside Tolstoy in the land of nothing and Nirvana. They are both helpless—one because he must not grasp anything, and the other because he must not let go of anything. The Tolstoyan’s will is frozen by a Buddhist instinct that all special actions are evil. But the Nietzscheite’s will is quite equally frozen by his view that all special actions are good; for if all special actions are good, none of them are special. They stand at the crossroads, and one hates all the roads and the other likes all the roads. The result is—well, some things are not hard to calculate. They stand at the cross-roads.”

“Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.”

“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.”