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Just posting mostly positive, mostly Stoic quotes that I find meaningful to try and dilute the negativity on the internet.
"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction -- its essence -- has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all."
-Isaac Asimov
-Isaac Asimov
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction -- its essence -- has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all."
-Isaac Asimov
-Isaac Asimov
“If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.”
-Henry Demarest Lloyd
-Henry Demarest Lloyd
November 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.”
-Henry Demarest Lloyd
-Henry Demarest Lloyd
“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
November 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.”
-Tacitus
-Tacitus
November 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.”
-Tacitus
-Tacitus
“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.”
-Plutarch
-Plutarch
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.”
-Plutarch
-Plutarch
“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
-Michel de Montaigne
-Michel de Montaigne
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
-Michel de Montaigne
-Michel de Montaigne
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
-Philip K. Dick
-Philip K. Dick
November 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
-Philip K. Dick
-Philip K. Dick
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien
-J.R.R. Tolkien
November 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien
-J.R.R. Tolkien
“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
-William Gibson
-William Gibson
November 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
-William Gibson
-William Gibson
"Most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker, but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all."
-Michael Rivero
-Michael Rivero
October 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"Most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker, but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all."
-Michael Rivero
-Michael Rivero
“I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
-Robert Frost
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
-Robert Frost
October 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
“I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
-Robert Frost
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
-Robert Frost
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
-John Steinbeck
-John Steinbeck
October 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
-John Steinbeck
-John Steinbeck
“For man, mind is the cause of bondage and mind is the cause of liberation. Mind absorbed in sense objects is the cause of bondage, and mind detached from the sense objects is the cause of liberation.”
-A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
-A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
October 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
“For man, mind is the cause of bondage and mind is the cause of liberation. Mind absorbed in sense objects is the cause of bondage, and mind detached from the sense objects is the cause of liberation.”
-A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
-A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
“For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”
-Cicero
-Cicero
October 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”
-Cicero
-Cicero
“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.”
-Fred Rogers
-Fred Rogers
October 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.”
-Fred Rogers
-Fred Rogers
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
-Aristotle
-Aristotle
October 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
-Aristotle
-Aristotle
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
-Carl Gustav Jung
-Carl Gustav Jung
October 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
-Carl Gustav Jung
-Carl Gustav Jung
"Never depend on the admiration of others. There is no strength in it. Personal merit cannot be derived from an external source."
-Epictetus
-Epictetus
October 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
"Never depend on the admiration of others. There is no strength in it. Personal merit cannot be derived from an external source."
-Epictetus
-Epictetus
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
-Tolkien
-Tolkien
October 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
-Tolkien
-Tolkien
“It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.”
-Chomsky
-Chomsky
October 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.”
-Chomsky
-Chomsky
Reposted by Stoic
"Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just."
-Marcus Aurelius
-Marcus Aurelius
August 14, 2023 at 5:49 PM
"Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just."
-Marcus Aurelius
-Marcus Aurelius
“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”
-W.E.B. DuBois
-W.E.B. DuBois
October 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”
-W.E.B. DuBois
-W.E.B. DuBois
“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
-Kurt Vonnegut
-Kurt Vonnegut
October 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
-Kurt Vonnegut
-Kurt Vonnegut
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
-Marcel Proust
-Marcel Proust
October 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
-Marcel Proust
-Marcel Proust