Plato Not Prozac Quotes

A big thing can be simply the sum of small things.

The opposite of passionate love is not hatred; it is indifference.

People looking to take offense will always find something to take it at, but then they’re the ones with the problem.

Για να είναι κανείς ανθρώπινος, πρέπει να συναναστρέφεται με ανθρώπους.

I seemed to be the only one who noticed, the only one who was concerned that doing the right thing for the wrong reason doesn’t make you a person of integrity.

And yet if every desire were satisfied as soon as it arose how would men occupy their lives, how would they pass the time? Imagine this race transported to a Utopia where everything grows of its own accord and turkeys fly around ready-roasted, where lovers find one another without any delay and keep one another without any difficulty: in such a place some men would die of boredom or hang themselves, some would fight and kill one another, and thus they would create for themselves more suffering than nature inflicts on them as it is.” —ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Plato, Not Prozac! Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems.