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Philosophy Quotes About Peace

Peace names both a political condition and a settled mind. Epicurean ataraxia, Stoic equanimity, and East Asian calm each propose different disciplines for reducing unnecessary disturbance.

16 quotations on peace

  1. Death is nothing to us: for what has been dissolved has no sensation, and what has no sensation is nothing to us.
  2. Pleasure is the beginning and end of the happy life — not the pleasures of profligates, but freedom from pain in the body and from disturbance in the soul.
  3. With whatever delights you, remind yourself of its nature — then if it is lost, you will not be disturbed.
  4. Therefore death is nothing to us, and does not concern us at all.
  5. Do not seek for things to happen as you wish, but wish for things to happen as they do, and you will flow well.
  6. Depart then in peace; the one who releases you is also at peace.
  7. To establish the mind for Heaven and Earth; to secure the destiny of the people; to continue the interrupted learning of the past sages; to open peace for all ages.
  8. Pleasant it is, when winds trouble the great sea, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation.
  9. The quest for certainty…has always been a quest for a peace that is assured.
  10. I shall endeavor not to laugh at human actions, nor to weep over them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
  11. The quest for certainty…is a quest for a peace which is assured.
  12. Treating pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat as the same…
  13. This mind is luminous—what more is there to say?
  14. Hatreds never cease through hatred in this world.
  15. Contacts with the senses, O son of Kunti, give cold and heat, pleasure and pain; they come and go — endure them.
  16. Do not be troubled about whether the rest of life will be long or short, as if that mattered much.