Epictetus on Art
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Epictetus, catalogued under art, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Epictetus, entry #108777: "And are all profited by what they hear, or only some among them? So that it seems that there is an art of hearing as well as one of speaking. ."
Attributed to Epictetus, entry #79487: "Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects."
3 Quotes by Epictetus on Art
"And are all profited by what they hear, or only some among them? So that it seems that there is an art of hearing as well as one of speaking. ."
"Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects."
"A Philosopher's school is a Surgery: pain, not pleasure, you should have felt therein. For on entering none of you is whole. One has a shoulder out of joint, another an abscess: a third suffers from an issue, a forth pains in the head. And am I then to sit down and treat you to pretty sentiments and empty fluourishes, so that you may applaud me and depart, with neither shoulder, nor head, nor issue, nor abscess a whit the better for your visit? Is it then for this that young men are to quit their homes, and leave parents, friends, kinsmen and substance to mouth out Bravo to your empty phrases! ."