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It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. ― Epictetus
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him. ― Epictetus
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems ― Epictetus
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. ― Epictetus
Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is in this respect a source of strength for socialism which traditional liberalism sadly lacks. Speculation about general principles provides an opportunity for the play of the imagination of those who are unencumbered by much knowledge of the facts of present-day life. Their ideas suffer from inherent contradictions, and any attempt to put them into practice must produce something utterly different from what they expect. — Friedrich August von Hayek
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself. — Albert Einstein
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. ― Epictetus
An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in another. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays. You might as well say of a view of the cosmos that it was suitable to half-past three, but not suitable to half-past four. What a man can believe depends upon his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
