The thought of what truth is has always fascinated me. And of course I am not alone in this: Several great thinkers have dealt with the idea of what truth is, how it depends on perspective and how it is influenced by opinion. One of them was the Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius. The...
If you don't know where you want to go in life, you will have difficulty navigating life. If we don't define a destination we are heading towards, we don't know what decisions we need to make to get there. If we don't make a decision about how to navigate, we may just end up...
Life is like a play. It does not depend on how long it is, but how colorful. Lucius Annaeus Seneca As with many things in life, life in and of itself does not depend on length or size. But how active and good you make it. The...
Seneca was a follower of the Stoic philosophy. An important part of the Stoic life is not to be upset by outside influences. But external influences can also quickly manifest themselves in our own thoughts. I have been engaged in working on myself in this regard for years and find in this...
Plato was the student of Socrates and is responsible for all almost all transcripts of Socrates' thought. He wrote down most of the approaches in dialogues, but Plato also had some very valuable ideas of his own. In this article, we take a closer look at one of his quotes. "Death is not the worst thing that can happen to the...
Socrates is considered the founder of Western philosophy. Even though there are no records of him personally, he is mentioned in many of Plato's writings. One of the most famous quotes of Socrates is "I know that I know nothing". By this Socrates does not mean that he knows absolutely nothing, he merely draws attention to the problem that ever...
As I have been heavily involved with the subject of philosophy myself for a number of years now, I have noticed that a broad section of philosophers do not necessarily express themselves in a way that can be clearly explained. Why this is so, we will look at in this article in an attempt to explain. There are three different reasons for thinking that...
A spiritual leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate is often expected to be quiet and to speak very little and very thoughtfully. And that is exactly how it is with the current Dalai Lama. But this is not a coincidence, but based on his own conviction: always listen well. Thus, the following quote is not surprising: "When you speak,...
I have known the saying "take what you need" for years. However, only recently I noticed that it can be interpreted in more than one way. Since you usually prefer what you've known for a while, I'll start with the meaning first, like...
Since the amount of philosophers our planet has produced is almost endless, it is hard to generalize whether the average philosopher was smarter than the average non-philosopher. Many of the philosophers who have ever lived have never been heard of. Since only those with truly groundbreaking ideas, were widely published, we take...
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