“The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example.”
More from Seneca on Philosophy
“Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!”
“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
“For Fate/ The willing leads, the unwilling drags along.”
“Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.”
“All cruelty springs from weakness.”
“The liberal arts do not conduct the soul all the way to virtue, but merely set it going in that direction.”
“A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.”
“Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.”
“The great soul surrenders itself to fate.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Isaac Asimov
13 quotes“Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.”