Plato, Not Prozac! Quotes

“A big thing can be simply the sum of small things.”
― Lou Marinoff, Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems

“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”
― Lou Marinoff, Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems

“The opposite of passionate love is not hatred; it is indifference.”
― Lou Marinoff, Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems

“People looking to take offense will always find something to take it at, but then they’re the ones with the problem.”
― Lou Marinoff, Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems

“Για να είναι κανείς ανθρώπινος, πρέπει να συναναστρέφεται με ανθρώπους.”
― Lou Marinoff, Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems

“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.”
― Lou Marinoff, Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems

“Cuida el final como cuidas el principio y no cosecharás el fracaso. LAOZI”
― Lou Marinoff, Más Platón y menos Prozac