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Aristotle’s horror vacui and the vacuum law of prosperity
In her book Dynamic Laws of Prosperity, Catherine Ponder introduces various laws that govern reality. One of these is the vacuum law of prosperity…
Timeless quotes from Steppenwolf
In an author’s note for the 1961 edition of Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse described the novel as his most “violently misunderstood” work…
The philosophy of beauty
Nowadays, most people don’t attach a larger significance to beauty. At most, beauty is a quality that evokes pleasure…
Seneca on anger
Anger is like stepping into quicksand. The angrier you get, the more damage you inflict upon yourself; just as the more…
Nietzsche’s eternal return
Friedrich Nietzsche claimed his doctrine of eternal return was his most important idea, the “greatest elevation of the consciousness…
Marcus Aurelius and the art of gratitude
Marcus Aurelius was the last emperor of the Pax Romana, a period of peace and stability for the Roman Empire. He was also a Stoic…
Aristotle & Seneca on friendship and isolation
Friendship was an important topic to Greek philosophers. Aristotle devoted 1/5th of his main work on ethics, Nicomachean Ethics…
Old lessons on learning and wisdom (Siddhartha Part I)
Siddhartha is a beautifully written spiritual novel by Hermann Hesse about a Nepalese man's journey of self-discovery and search for…
The philosophy of love
"The parched earth loves the rain / And the high heaven, with moisture laden, loves / Earthwards to fall." - Euripides
Seneca on time
Time is invaluable: it's finite, we don't know how much of it we have and we can never get it back. Yet it's easy to forget its value.