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

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

“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.”

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

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

“The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.”

“One must not avoid Schopenhauer. One should read him and then overcome him. It is the ladder that you must get rid of once you reach the top.”

“It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.”

“Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.”

“The contrast between genetic and environmental, between nature and nurture, is not a contrast between fixed and changeable. It is a fallacy of biological determinism to say that if differences are in the genes, no change can occur.”

“…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines, goulags, parataxes, non-senses, or paradoxes, and who turns this into the glory of his novelty, into his promise of change?”