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

“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis.”

“Consider the whole world reconnoitre individuals j who is there whose life is not taken up with providing for to morrow Do you ask what harm there is in this An infinite deal for such men do not live but are about to live they defer every thing from day to day however circumspect we are life will still outrun us.”

“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”

“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”

“The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.”

“My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching, and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application—not far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech—and learn them so well that words become works. No one to my mind lets humanity down quite so much as those who study philosophy as if it were a sort of commercial skill and then proceed to live in a quite different manner from the way they tell other people to live.”

“It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it was too large!”

“A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.”

“Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.”

“You spend your whole life looking for answers because you think the next answer will solve all your problems: make you a little less miserable, because when you run out of questions you don't just run out of answers... you run out hope.”

“Consider the following sequence of cases, which we shall call the Tale of the Slave, and imagine it is about you.”

“No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else”