A few Diethics quotes:
Ecclesiastes 5:9 If you love money, you will never be satisfied. If you long to be rich, you
will never get what you want. It is useless. The richer you are, the more mouths you must feed. All you gain is the knowledge that you are rich.
Ecclesiastes 1:7
Every river flows into the sea, but the sea is not yet full. The water returns to where the river begun and starts all over again.
Ecclesiastes 1:17
I was determined to learn the difference between knowledge and foolishness, wisdom and madness, but I found that I might as well be chasing the wind. The wiser you are, the more worries you have; the more you know the more it hurts.
Ecclesiastes 8:9-9:12
Mathew 12:22
And so I tell you not to worry about the food you need to stay alive or the clothes you need for your body. Life is much more important than food and the body than clothes.
Freud: Religion is an illusion based on human wishes.
Freud’s suggested alternative is to replace religion with a scientific, rational
understanding of the world.
Socrates: Provided your soul remains untouched, your misfortunes will be comparatively trivial. Real personal catastrophe consists in corruption of the soul. That is why it does a person far less harm to suffer
injustice than to commit it. We should pity the perpetrator of injustice not the victim of injustice.
Emmanuel Kent: Our understanding of the reality of the world depends on the way in which the mind has organized experience.Socrates: I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.