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"The prologue is absolutely intriguing! I'm looking so forward to the rest of this book!" — Jul 19, 2017 02:57AM
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Perception is experienced as a coherent and fluid process only because our brain is constantly making educated guesses, filling in the gaps in information.
“It is the individual mainly which draws me—the struggling, blundering, passionate insect vainly striving against the river of Life and seeking to divert the channel of events to suit himself—breaking his fangs on the iron collar of Fate and sinking into final defeat with the froth of a curse on his lips,”
― The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard
― The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard
“35. When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shun the being seen to do it, even though the world should make a wrong supposition about it; for, if you don’t act right, shun the action itself; but, if you do, why are you afraid of those who censure you wrongly?”
― The Enchiridion
― The Enchiridion
“if you suppose any of the things not in our own control to be either good or evil, when you are disappointed of what you wish, or incur what you would avoid, you must necessarily find fault with and blame the authors. For every animal is naturally formed to fly and abhor things that appear hurtful, and the causes of them; and to pursue and admire those which appear beneficial, and the causes of them. It is impractical, then, that one who supposes himself to be hurt should be happy about the person who, he thinks, hurts him, just as it is impossible to be happy about the hurt itself. Hence,”
― The Enchiridion
― The Enchiridion
“You must be one man, either good or bad. You must cultivate either your own ruling faculty or externals, and apply yourself either to things within or without you; that is, be either a philosopher, or one of the vulgar.”
― The Enchiridion
― The Enchiridion
“what Marcus has in mind is getting to the ethical core of the situation (although, as becomes clear, this is also linked with understanding the natural world better). The ‘stripping’ method assumes the first of the key Stoic themes noted earlier: that our happiness depends solely on responding virtuously to situations and not at all on acquiring material or social advantages. Hence, what the method brings out is what virtues we should aim to express in that context (‘what virtue is needed ... such as gentleness, courage, truthfulness, good faith, simplicity, self-sufficiency’). The”
― Stoicism Today: Selected Writings
― Stoicism Today: Selected Writings
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