“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.”
— Schopenhauer
— Schopenhauer
Forwarded from Diary of an Underground Ronin
"Man conquers the world by conquering himself."
— Zeno
— Zeno
“So the problem is not so much to see what nobody has yet seen, as to think what nobody has yet thought concerning that which everybody sees.”
— Schopenhauer
— Schopenhauer
“A happy life is impossible; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.”
― Shopenhauer
― Shopenhauer
Forwarded from 🌲𝕳𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖑𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖑𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖌🌲
“Your ability to control your thoughts—treat it with respect. It’s all that protects your mind from false perceptions—false to your nature, and that of all rational beings.”
— Marcus Aurelius
— Marcus Aurelius
"It is difficult for the father of a family not to regard as a personal enemy the author of a bad book that brings corruption into the hearts of his children."
— Louis de Bonald
— Louis de Bonald
Forwarded from Diary of an Underground Ronin
"Man is not troubled by the events, but the meaning he gives them."
— Epictetus
— Epictetus
“After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.”
— Schopenhauer
— Schopenhauer