If I sought the world's favor, I would put on finer clothes. But I want to appear in my simple, natural, everyday dress. For it is myself that I portray.
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The Master said, "Don't worry if people don't recognise your merits; worry that you may not recognise theirs." (An. 1.16)
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“I’m very concerned that our society is much more concerned with information than wonder, in noise rather than silence. How do we encourage reflection? … Oh my, this is a noisy world.”
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"Anxiety and fear want to protect you from harm. In keeping you from engaging the tests you face, they also keep you from the good things in life." @duffynyc
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This is probably the best short introduction to my view of consciousness. philosophersmag.com/essays/2… on @philosophersmag
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A person's character is reflected in the things that occupy their attention. Trivial characters are preoccupied with trivial things. #Stoicism
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Knowledge is having the right answers.
Intelligence is asking the right questions.
Wisdom is knowing when to ask the right questions.
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In other news, we're continually working away on our Plato's Academy Centre proposal. Hopefully, we'll have more to say about that soon. I've nearly finished my graphic novel on Marcus Aurelius and I'm half-way through writing a new biography of him for Yale Uni Press.
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We need prisons that are more like schools, and schools that are less like prisons. 🧠
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Kasey: "I decided I was going to face fear and criticism head-on, grabbing the snake by its head and really taking control of everything within my power, something I would later learn and reaffirm from the Stoic teachings." #PathsToFlourishing #Stoicism
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1 day to #PathsToFlourishing! "Reading the Stoics is like getting a kick up my pants every day, it's like get up and live!" @duffynyc bit.ly/sxwcountdown
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I am the strong and willing protector from the city of Naarden. How do you do?
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I’ve just read ‘Bosanquet and his Friends;’ a collection of the philosopher’s letters. Of course, there’s much here with which one might disagree. But how sensitive, serious and sincere it all seems; how beautiful! And how unlike modern academics these people were!
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What I don't get about transphobes is, like...don't they have anything better to do with their lives? Life is very short, all that time spent on hate is better spent on something productive, like drinking nine beers and re-watching The Fellowship of the Ring for the 20th time.
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"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."
-- Blaise Pascal
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.@senatemajldr on the U.S. Capitol Attack: "The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people."