Quotes · Skopia

20 quotes

Do justice, that you may live long upon earth. Calm the weeper, do not oppress the widow, do not oust a man from his father's property, do not degrade magnates from their seats. Beware of punishing wrongfully; do not kill, for it will not profit you.

The Teaching for Merikare

2025 BC

★ 1.0

Philosophical literature

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals · 1785

★ 1.3

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

1931

★ 1.8

Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the "transcendent" and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mamals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.

Christopher Hitchens

2001

★ 1.8

That great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

John Morley

1887

★ 1.9

Historical literature

It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well and justly without living pleasurably.

Epicurus

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 2.0

Poem · Philosophical literature

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

William Blake

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1794

★ 2.1

Historical literature

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

Epicurus

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

★ 2.2

Film · Science fiction (film) · Action (film) · Science fiction · Action

Relax. You'll live longer.

Quaid

Total Recall · 1990

★ 2.2

Play · Tragedy (play) · Tragedy

Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust · 1808

★ 2.3

Novel

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship · 1786

★ 2.8

Novel

Wear dark clothes after 6 p. M. Eat fresh fish for breakfast when available. Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes premature gray hair. Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the Lord.

John Cheever

The Wapshot Chronicle · 1957

★ 3.4

Novel

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

Jerome K. Jerome

1889

★ 3.5

Speech

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

William Morris

1882

★ 3.5

Film · Epic (film) · Fantasy (film) · Epic · Fantasy

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

Gandalf

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring · 2001

★ 3.7

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

My child, you are still young, and time as it advances [888b] will cause you to reverse many of the opinions you now hold: so wait till then before pronouncing judgment on matters of most grave importance; and of these the gravest of all—though at present you regard it as naught—is the question of holding a right view about the gods and so living well, or the opposite.

Plato

Laws · 346 BC

★ 3.9

Novel · Fantasy

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

J.R.R. Tolkien

1954

★ 3.9

Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.

Alasdair Gray

2004

★ 4.4

Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life-learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Robert Fulghum

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten · 1988

★ 5.9

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

For our discussion is about no ordinary matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

Socrates

Plato, Republic · 375 BC

★ 8.2

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