Aurelius "Thoughts"
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius In Meditations, Aurelius distills the central pillars a...
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"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius In Meditations, Aurelius distills the central pillars a...
View full details"One who has a why can bear almost any how" - Nietzsche From The Twilight of the Idols: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer First: How awesome is...
View full details"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity." - Sun Tzu From The Art of War, the Chinese military treatise dating back to the 5th century BC...
View full details"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard This simple observation from Kierkegaard’s journals se...
View full details"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves." - Leo Tolstoy Not to be outdone by his novels, Tolstoy led an e...
View full details"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them." - Ida B. Wells Trailblazing journalist Ida B. Wells knew what she stood for a...
View full details"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that." - John Stuart Mill From his classic philosophical treatise On Liberty: "He who...
View full details"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." - Edgar Allan Poe Sanity and insanity reversed. The illustration depicts a man seeking ...
View full details"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson was a prolific essayist and philosopher who led the transcendent...
View full details"Cease your imaginings. Confine yourself to the present." - Marcus Aurelius Marcus Aurelius was a preeminent stoic philosopher, but still found ti...
View full details"Forever is composed of Nows" - Emily Dickinson Why is it that the most profound human truths are so often conveyed by the most eye-roll inducing,...
View full details"Doubt is unpleasant, but certainty is absurd." - Voltaire Italy had the Renaissance, Germany had the Reformation, and France had Voltaire. Ever th...
View full details"What stands in the way becomes the way." - Marcus Aurelius In this illustration I only use the shapes and colors of a stop sign. Instead of serv...
View full details"Free yourself from distraction, walk the path in front of you." - Marcus Aurelius Much of Aurelius' Meditations is dedicated to the pursuit of f...
View full details"It is dangerous to be right when the established authorities are wrong." - Voltaire "Il est dangereux d'avoir raison dans des choses où des hommes...
View full details"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius In Meditations, Aurelius distills the central pillars and tenet...
View full details"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately." - Henry David Thoreau From his beloved book, Walden—a record of his communion with na...
View full details"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe From The Maxims and Reflections. This is it, isn't it? When presented with the uncertainty of lif...
View full details"Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A quotation from Ralph Waldo Eme...
View full details"Once you learn to read you will be forever free." - Frederick Douglass No author better captured or more fully experienced the importance of lear...
View full details"Wit is well-bred insolence." - Aristotle Always have something unexpected in your pocket. Aristotle may have had this insight over two thousand y...
View full details"Nothing vast enters the realm of mortals without a curse." - Sophocles From his play Antigone, on the temptation to sacrifice wisdom at the altar...
View full details"Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy." - Marcus Aurelius In this illustration, the interconnectedness of the physical and the conceptual...
View full details"There is a certain slant of light on winter afternoons" - Emily Dickinson Dickinson's famously rigid meter and rhyme scheme seemed quaint and alm...
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