Quotes about feeling

Philosophy Quotes About Anger

Anger can be a signal of injustice or a habit that destroys judgment. Stoic, Buddhist, and modern moral psychologists disagree about whether anger can be purified or must be extinguished.

16 quotations on anger

  1. It is worse to do injustice than to suffer it.
  2. Let us not become haters of argument — that is a great danger to the soul.
  3. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
  4. He who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
  5. Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding!
  6. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
  7. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
  8. Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
  9. The Master said: When you have faults, do not fear to correct them.
  10. The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable.
  11. Before joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure are issued, that is called the Mean; when issued and all hit due measure, that is called Harmony.
  12. The Master said: The wise are not perplexed; the humane are not anxious; the brave are not afraid.
  13. To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
  14. Conquer anger by non-anger; conquer evil by good.
  15. Courage is the self-affirmation of being in spite of the fact of nonbeing.
  16. Man is a rope stretched between animal and overman — a rope over an abyss.