Passible Quotes & Sayings

When a man's intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God and his incensiveness is completely transformed into divine love. For by continual participation in the divine radiance his intellect becomes totally filled with light; and when it has reintegrated its passible aspect, it redirects this aspect towards God, filling it with an incomprehensible and intense longing for Him and with unceasing love, thus drawing it entirely away from worldly things to the divine. — Maximus The Confessor

You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on. — Ken Wilber

Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perceptions. Philosophy is about the caustic or cauterizing effect of the truth, not the currying of sensibilities. — Kenny Smith

I made it the mantra of those days; when I paused before yet another series of switchbacks or skidded down knee-jarring slopes, when patches of flesh peeled off my feet along with my socks, when I lay alone and lonely in my tent at night I asked, often out loud: Who is tougher than me?
The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely there was no way on this earth that it was true, I said it anyway: No one. — Cheryl Strayed

The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not wish to display his worth. — Laozi

This argument is not the barrel of drugged trout that Methodological Descriptivism was, but it's still vulnerable to objections. — David Foster Wallace

The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character. — St. John Climacuslimacus

Just because you spent 4 years studying a subject doesn't mean you have to spend the rest 40 years suffering it. — Dhaval Gajera