Meditations Quotes

“If he is a stranger in the universe, a person who has no knowledge of what it contains, he is no less a stranger who has no knowledge of what comes about in it. He is a fugitive, he who flees from the reason that governs our social life; a blind man, he who closes the eyes of his mind; a beggar, he who depends on another and does not possess within himself all that is necessary for life; an abscess on the body of the universe,* he who sets himself apart and cuts himself off from the reason of our common nature because he is dissatisfied with what comes to pass; for this is brought about by the same order of nature that brought you too into being. And he is a limb amputated from human society, he who severs his own soul from the soul of all rational beings, which is but one.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: With Selected Correspondence

“All is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: With Selected Correspondence

“If anyone can give me good reason to think that I am going astray in my thoughts or my actions, I will gladly change my ways. For I seek the truth, which has never caused harm to anyone; no, the person who is harmed is one who persists in his self-deception and ignorance. 22”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: With Selected Correspondence