This quote highlights the inherent connection between self-sufficiency and freedom. It suggests that when we are self-sufficient, when we are able to rely on ourselves and meet our own needs, we experience a sense of liberation and independence. This quote encourages us to cultivate self-sufficie...
58 Sourced Quotes Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Epicurus Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor ab...
These Epicurus quotes expand more on hisideas about friendship, death, philosophy, and material possessions. Don’t forget to also check out thesePlato quoteson democracy, the republic and life. If you love this quote collection, read out our most popular quote article aboutshort inspirational quo...
EpicurusA strict belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery on the other hand, there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.Epicurus Browse All: Epicurus Quotations Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:Based on Topics: Mind QuotesSo, maybe you don't see bl...
would have agreed with this definition. Where the Epicureans and the other philosophical schools disagreed with Homer and Hesiod is their characterization of the gods as being subject to petty human weaknesses such as jealousy, adultery, anger, cruelty, and so on. The god of a philosopher must...
Our Friend Marcus published a five-part essay series titledFive contemplations on the gods: A path to community and friendship, with the intention of helping students to place before our eyes the teachings on how to live like a god.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.EpicurusThose who tell the young man to live well and the old man to die well is nothing but a fool, not only for what life has in happiness to both...
Inthis essay on the benefits of prayeraccording to certain studies, the author reports these findings, which confirm that what we believe about deity has psychosomatic effects: However, all types of prayer might not work in the same way — when hospitalized patients appraised God as a kind supp...
The unjust, on the other hand fear detection forever once they have committed injustices and also fear the Gods’ retribution, in spite of the fact that (as per a Hermarchus quote) “the Gods do not appear to harm wrongdoers even if the worst of mankind escape notice”. Even if they ...
which I much prefer. We must not deny that there are dangers in knowledge, but I sense here also that she concedes to opinions that are foreign to the Epicurean study of nature, and which sometimes depict scientific advance as an insult to God, or as otherwise arrogance on the part of ...