Seneca the Younger Quotes About Philosophy

• Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.

  Seneca the Younger

  Art, Philosophy, Distance

• There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• Everything may happen.

  Seneca the Younger

  Art, Philosophy, History

• The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Fundamentals, Facts

• What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Death, Wise

  "Moral Essays: Ad Marciam De Consolatione". Translated by J. W. Basore,

• Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Philosophy, Real

• Man is a social animal.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Animal, Men

  "De Beneficiis" Book VII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 724-725), 1922.

• Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

  Seneca the Younger

  Positive, Art, Philosophy

• In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Lying, Philosophy

• Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Blow, Belief

• Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Philosophy, Immortal

• When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: 'It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Philosophy, Caring

• The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Giving, Advice

• Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

  Seneca the Younger

  Plato, Philosophy, Science

• Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Virtue, Restraint

• Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Fall, Arrows

• People do not die - they kill themselves.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, People, Dies

• Philosophy is the health of the mind.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Mind

• Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Overcoming, May

• Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Humanity, Unhappy

• There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Motivational, Wisdom

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