Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things.
-Epictetus
Tag: Quote
Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never…
Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original shape.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
The art of progress is to preserve order…
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
-Alfred North Whitehead
I have striven all my life not to…
I have striven all my life, not to hate human action, not to laugh at human action, not to weep at human action but to understand human action.
-Spinzoa
Fear not Life still Leaves human effort scope…
Fear not! Life still
Leaves human effort scope
But, since life teems with ill,
Nurse no extravagant hope
-Mathew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna