Yellowisherman

Through arts, philosophy can strive. 🌕 Yellow: Creativity and Enlightenment 🎣 (F)isherman: Patience

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I created this artwork to highlight the notion of living in our own consciousness and paying attention to our own voice rather than acting rashly toward anything presented to us (the earphone is not connected).

1/1 on: https://t.co/EkPi30nUMu

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15 Deep Philosophy Quotes of "Aristotle"

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For if evils have no means of entering us except through the judgments we make of them, it would then seem to be in our power to dismiss them or turn them to good. - Montaigne, That the Taste of Good and Evil Things Depends in Large Part on the Opinion We Have of Them (1580)

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Each man is as wretched as he has convinced himself to be.

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It never hurts to anticipate for the best, while preparing yourself for the worst, for it is when we are caught lacking that we are wretched.

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“Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.”

― Socrates

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Wisdom is obtained not when it’s being inquired, but when it’s being challenged.

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If you have seen how matters truly lie, get rid of thoughts about how you will seem to others. Be satisfied if you can live out the rest of your life, whatever remains of it, with what wisdom your nature provides. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.1

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This thought too will help you avoid empty self-esteem: you can no longer have lived your whole life, or even your life since youth, as a philosopher. Rather it has become obvious to many others,

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as well as to yourself, that you are far removed from philosophy. You have become confused, and getting a reputation as a philosopher is no longer easy for you; your position in life is also at war with it.

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Nor would I advise you that you should neither follow (nor take as a follower) anyone but a wise man. For where will you find that man – the one we have been seeking for so many centuries? In place of the best, let it be the least bad! Seneca, On Tranquility of Mind 7.4

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I am free because I think I am, and because I say so, and I act so; You are not free because you don’t think so, nor you say so and act so.

We need to realise that the deliverance from all worries starts with us.

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In effect we can distinguish two kinds of mistakes. We fail to appreciate some things because they are too familiar. We overreact to others because they aren’t familiar enough.

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@philosophy_life Virtue is the highest good, and happiness is the collateral benefit that comes along with the achievement of virtues.

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Time and experience are the best teachers in life. If there is nothing you can do to soothe your anger, pain, or fear, time and experience will be the best remedy.

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Persistence surmounts every obstacle. Nothing is impossible for the one who keeps trying.

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to dive to immense depths and stay underneath the water with no chance to breathe. There are a thousand other instances in which persistence surmounts every obstacle, showing that nothing is difficult if the mind orders itself to endure it. Seneca, On Anger 2.12.3–5

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Nothing is so difficult, so far out of reach, that the human mind cannot conquer it and make it familiar with constant practice; no emotions are so fierce and independent that they cannot be tamed by training.

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Whatever the mind commands itself, it obtains. . . . People have learned to run on tightropes; to carry enormous burdens, scarcely within human capacity to support;

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Even if you will bear some resemblance to someone you admire and whose influence lies deep within you, I want your resemblance to be that of a son, not a statue: a statue is a dead thing. - Seneca, Epistles 84.7–8

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Let our mind do this: let it hide all the things it has made use of, and exhibit only what it has produced.