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  • #1
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
    Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

  • #2
    Karl Popper
    “Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.”
    Karl Popper

  • #3
    Karl Popper
    “True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.”
    Karl R. Popper

  • #4
    Karl Popper
    “No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.”
    Karl Popper

  • #5
    Karl Popper
    “All life is problem solving”
    Karl Popper

  • #6
    Karl Popper
    “Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.”
    Karl Popper

  • #7
    Karl Popper
    “A theory that explains everything, explains nothing”
    Karl Popper

  • #8
    Marcus Aurelius
    “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #9
    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #10
    Marcus Aurelius
    “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #11
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #12
    Seneca
    “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
    Seneca

  • #13
    Seneca
    “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
    Seneca

  • #14
    Seneca
    “Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
    Seneca

  • #15
    Seneca
    “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #16
    Seneca
    “If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
    Seneca the Younger

  • #17
    Seneca
    “Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
    Seneca

  • #18
    Seneca
    “No man was ever wise by chance”
    Seneca

  • #19
    Seneca
    “Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”
    Seneca

  • #20
    Epictetus
    “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
    Epictetus

  • #21
    Epictetus
    “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ”
    Epictetus

  • #22
    Epictetus
    “First say to yourself what you would be;
    and then do what you have to do.”
    Epictetus

  • #23
    Epictetus
    “It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
    Epictetus

  • #24
    Epictetus
    “Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.”
    Epictetus

  • #25
    Epictetus
    “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
    Epictetus

  • #26
    Epictetus
    “The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. ”
    Epictetus

  • #27
    Epictetus
    “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
    Epictetus



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