WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2677/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Marcus Aurelius</b></a></p><blockquote>Constantly think of the Universe as one living creature, embracing one being and one soul; how all is absorbed into the one consciousness of this living creature; how it compasses all things with a single purpose, and how all things work together to cause all that comes to pass, and their wonderful web and texture.<br> <br>[Ὡς ἓν ζῷον τὸν κόσμον, μίαν οὐσίαν καὶ ψυχὴν μίαν ἐπέχον, συνεχῶς ἐπινοεῖν καὶ πῶς εἰς αἴσθησιν μίαν τὴν τούτου πάντα ἀναδίδοται καὶ πῶς ὁρμῇ μιᾷ πάντα πράσσει καὶ πῶς πάντα πάντων τῶν γινομένων συναίτια καὶ οἵα τις ἡ σύννησις καὶ συμμήρυσις.]</blockquote><p><b>Marcus Aurelius</b> (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher<br><i>Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν]</i>, Book 4, ch. 40 (4.40) (AD 161-180) [tr. Farquharson (1944)]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: <a href="https://wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2677/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2677…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=marcusaurelius" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marcusaurelius</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=animism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>animism</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=circleoflife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>circleoflife</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=gaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gaea</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=cosmos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cosmos</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>life</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=pantheism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pantheism</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=unity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=universe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>universe</span></a></p>