Irianto Mahani > Irianto's Quotes

“the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands.”
― Seneca, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic

“yet remember that no man loses any other life than that which now lives, nor lives any other than that which he is now losing.”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

“They see mankind streaming by the million back to the bosom of the Church,”
― C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“But on the major ethical questions, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are in agreement—though Aristotle never admits this in so many words.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

“But it is a hardship," men say, "to do without our customary pleasures, – to fast, to feel thirst and hunger.”
― Seneca, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic

“Although not a few people think that a psychology can be written ex cathedra, nowadays most of us are convinced that an objective psychology must be founded above all on observation and experience.”
― Carl Jung, Complete Works of Carl Jung: Psychological Types, Psychiatric Studies, Essays on Analytical Psychology & others

“Therefore the first step in defining “philosophy” is the indication of these problems and doubts, which is also the first step in the actual study of philosophy.”
― Bertrand Russell, An Outline of Philosophy

“To be a good philosopher, a man must have a strong desire to know, combined with great caution in believing that he knows; he must also have logical acumen and the habit of exact thinking.”
― Bertrand Russell, An Outline of Philosophy