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“Be brave, be curious, be determined, overcome the odds. It can be done”
― Brief Answers to the Big Questions
― Brief Answers to the Big Questions
“Today’s present is tomorrow’s past,
So make this present a beautiful one.”
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So make this present a beautiful one.”
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“I have spent my life travelling across the universe, inside my mind.”
― Brief Answers to the Big Questions
― Brief Answers to the Big Questions
“You are more likely to act yourself into feeling a particular way than you are to feel yourself into acting”
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“You must realize that the world is a joke. There is no justice, everything is random. Only when you realize this will you understand how silly it is to take yourself seriously. There is no purpose in the universe. It just is. There’s no particular meaning in what decision you make today about how to act.”
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Stoic Book Club
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This club is about traditional Stoicism with the distinct purpose of enabling and promoting discourse on Stoic philosophy as a way of life.
Underground Knowledge — A discussion group
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This global discussion group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underreported issues of our era. All you need is an enquiring ...more
Political Philosophy and Ethics
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Study and discussion of the important questions of ethical and political philosophy from Confucius and Socrates to the present. Rules (see also the ...more
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