Epictetus Quotes

To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.

We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.

What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Right reason is stronger than force.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

I consider myself a reasonable man. As such, I tend to expect others to behave with a modicum of reason and common sense. Especially those with power.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.

Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.

Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense.

By nature, I am someone who hews to the middle. I need to hear all sides of a story. Unless I am engaged in a tough round of dominoes or Scrabble, I think of myself as unreasonably reasonable.

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

I believe that eclecticism is a virtue. It may not be a word, but its definitely a virtue.

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.

It is said that an argument is what convinces reasonable men and a proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man.

Every why hath a wherefore.