#accord

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#accordingly #care #depends #entertain #guard

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity. ↗

— Alain Badiou

#both #creation #development #every #his

When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will. ↗

— Joan Blades

#active #become #candidates #communicate #representatives

You know, it's ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools, because Christianity has abrogated four of the Ten Commandments. For example, the Sabbath day according to the Ten Commandments is Saturday, not Sunday. And the reason is because God rested, not because Jesus was resurrected. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#because #christianity #christians #commandments #day

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events. ↗

— John Berger

#events #go #plan #you #your

Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#falls #form #historical #human #human world

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly. ↗

— Epictetus

#adorn #first #know #then #who

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#applied #background #cannot #cultural #culture

The foundations of democratic transition should be laid in accordance with a sincere and committed strategy that is supported by various policy tools, and implemented wisely. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#committed #democratic #foundations #implemented #laid

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will. ↗

— Euripides

#acting #fortune #free #law #other