Epictetus: Slave and Sage
Self-mastery, over both emotions and thoughts, is an invaluable skill that every person should work to acquire.
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Self-mastery, over both emotions and thoughts, is an invaluable skill that every person should work to acquire.
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“The archer that shoots over, misses as much as he that falls short, and ’tis equally troublesome to my sight to look up at a great light, and to look down into a dark abyss.” Michel de Montaigne
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Though it has been available in European languages for only a couple of centuries, the Bhagavad Gita has had a tremendous influence on the world’s culture.
The Bhagavad Gītā: Jewel of India Read More »
Images of mutual and contrasting courtesies between the God and angels, angels and man, Adam and Eve, are some of his most persistent; even the damned angels cannot function without a parody of heavenly order.
John Milton: The Blind Bard of Christendom Read More »
“Such is the unity of all history that anyone who endeavors to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web.” — Sir Frederick Pollock
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Cicero’s formulation of ethics was a major influence on minds as diverse as St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, John Locke, Voltaire, and Thomas Jefferson. Perhaps we would do wisely to return to a fountain that has watered so many so well.
Cicero: A Tongue of Gold Read More »
Although his philosophy was never held by more than a small fraction of the Roman people, his work had a major impact on the poets that succeeded him and remained popular for centuries, and went on to influence many eminent scholars.
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The paradoxes in how gravity, light, and atomic nuclear forces operate have prompted subtle theories about not only nature, but reality as such—bending science back towards its parent discipline of philosophy.
The Great Conversation: Astronomy Read More »
“All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.” — Alexander Woollcott
The Great Conversation: Virtue and Vice Read More »
Like Tennessee Williams’ Tom Wingfield, Aesop gives us “truth cleverly disguised as fiction,” conveying wisdom imaginatively and indirectly.
Aesop: Wisdom From Below Read More »