"In my mind, there is no reason why Stoicism shouldn't become as popular as Buddhism, especially in the Western world, where the dominant culture, Christianity, itself absorbed a large number of elements from Greco-Roman Stoicism."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Massimo Pigliucci

#Buddhism Quotes #Mind Quotes #Culture Quotes

“I think I can connect with an audience because I know what it's like to be on the other side of it and I really remember all of that.”
“We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.”
“The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we all share - these do not know prejudice and they do not accept partiality.”
“Art springs from life but it doesn't mean we have to be tyrannized by it.”
“Bob Dylan tells interviewers what he wants to tell them, not what they necessarily want to know. His responses are really part of the art, and often have a relationship to the songs that have just come out or are about to come out.”
“Hotels are temporary people storage, no matter how big the boxes are. Remember that.”
“Art never expresses anything but itself.”
“There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.”

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