Quotes - Eirik (Kristiansand, 4630, Norway) Showing 1-20 of 20

#1

“Freedom is participation in power.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2

“Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.”
― Martin Luther

tags: faith, intelligence, reason, religion

149 likes

#3

“Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

tags: confession, honesty, integrity, morality, truth

298 likes

#4

“We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

tags: integrity

702 likes

#5

“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: doing-right, goodness, integrity

1313 likes

#6

“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: comparison, gossip, inspirational, integrity

618 likes

#7

“It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

tags: integrity

135 likes

#8

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, philosophy

3959 likes

#9

“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
― Socrates

1277 likes

#10

“Be as you wish to seem.”
― Socrates

266 likes

#11

“The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates

tags: honor, honour

250 likes

#12

“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”
― Socrates

tags: equality, superiority, women

230 likes

#13

“In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.”
― Socrates

tags: inner-self

163 likes

#14

“Those who are hardest to love need it the most.”
― Socrates

tags: love

190 likes

#15

“Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.”
― Socrates

94 likes

#16

“When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.”
― Socrates

tags: breath, breathe, breathing, insight, wisdom

79 likes

#17

“He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.”
― Socrates

51 likes

#18

“Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.”
― Socrates

15 likes

#19

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”
― Socrates

20 likes

#20

“Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”
― Socrates

16 likes

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