"The Stoics thought that a fundamental insight into human life is that some things are up to us and others are not, the famous dichotomy of control. Up to us are our judgments, decisions, and actions; everything else is not up to us, because it is influenced by external factors."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Massimo Pigliucci

#Decision Quotes #Action Quotes #Judgment Quotes

“Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that's how you'll stay.”

Source : Song: Unforgettable, Album: The World Of Nat King Cole
“Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.”
“I'll write about California someday, I imagine, but I don't know when.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We love what we can't have, and we can't have what we love”

Source : "'We love what we can't have, and we can't have what we love'". Interview with Bryan Walsh, content.time.com. September 27, 2004.
“The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.”
“It's totally true: Ariel, Christopher Owens, me, and Courtney Love, all in Saint Laurent ads, all with the same haircut.”
“Some say the economy means that you have to persuade people to invest in clothes - to buy less things but more expensive things. I disagree - invest in jewelry, or a house, maybe, but not in fashion.”
“As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I suppose by the need not to appear ignorant.”

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