Thursday, January 23, 2014

Quote of the Day

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

- Epictetus

4 comments:

LA Grant said...

Reminds me of the White Queen from Alice in Wonderland:

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

Michael Wade said...

Larry,

Great line!

Michael

Dan in Philly said...

The stoics were amazing.

Michael Wade said...

Dan,

They were. Several years back I read Tom Wolfe's "A Man in Full" in which the main character discovers the wisdom of Epictetus. The book was fun but it should probably be read periodically for a reminder of how to think like a stoic in the modern world.

Michael