A Stoic Response to Anger
A Stoic Response, Wisdom, and More
“Keep this thought handy when you feel a fit of rage coming on—it isn’t manly to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore manlier. A real man doesn’t give way to anger and discontent, and such a person has strength, courage, and endurance—unlike the angry and complaining. The nearer a man […]
This is a guest post by Isaac Chanakira Stoicism philosophy is on the rise. I have been practicing it for a couple of years now and would like to share 3 of the most effective and practical mental exercise/meditations that I have used. Method One: A view from above ‘You can rid yourself of […]
There is no more seductive time-suck than talking about other people and their choices. Why did she do that? Can you believe he lets his kids talk to him that way? I heard they cheat on their taxes. If I was in his shoes, you know what I’d do? Why don’t any of these politicians have […]
Coach George Raveling is one of most well known and beloved figures in the sports world. He is currently Nike’s Director of International Basketball and has been inducted to several Halls of Fames including the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the College Basketball Hall of Fame. At age 80, Coach Raveling remains a […]
What you have studied and learned in philosophy should not make you harder on other people, only harder on yourself. Immature people use knowledge as a weapon. Wise people use it as a shield—to protect themselves and to protect others. This is what Ben Franklin meant in his epigram, “Search others for their virtues, thyself […]
Imagine Napoleon on the battlefield, looking at a plan unfolding exactly as he thought. He observes that his prospects are rosy and positive. But he is indifferent to this. Always has been. “Even if it were otherwise,” he says, even if things were bad, “a man must live in the present. He who has courage […]
Samuel Beckett’s seemingly paradoxical line: “I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” Paul Kalanithi quotes it in When Breath Becomes Air, his haunting and moving book about facing his cancer diagnosis and eventual death. What does it mean? Exactly what you think. We say to ourselves many times in life, “I can’t go on like this.” […]
Carved on David’s sword in the Caravaggio painting David with the Head of Goliath is the acronym H-AS OS. It stands for humilitas occidit superbiam. Humility kills pride. It’s a line from St. Augustine, but Caravaggio, known for his beautiful, haunting realistic works, was a kindred spirit of the Stoics. (He himself carried a knife inscribed with nec spe, nec metu, “Without hope, without […]
What is the job of the philosopher? It is to live the philosophy as best as they can. Will the philosopher mess up? Yes. Will the philosopher make mistakes? Yes, they are human. Will the philosopher fail to live up to their own standards? Yes, repeatedly. But that’s the job. The job is not to preach. Not […]