The ancient Greeks, whose developments and discoveries in mathematics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, and many other subjects continue to exert primary influence on Western civilization, and therefore also on the global village, were vitally interested in love and its relation to the human soul. In this...
Changing outside things is not going to help. It is just like arranging the furniture in your room again and again. Whatsoever you do -- you can put it this way or that way -- is the same furniture. Every person is in flux, is river-like....
Little Hans had a great many friends, but the most devoted friend of all was big Hugh the Miller. Indeed, so devoted was the rich Miller to little Hans, that he [Hans] would never go by his garden without leaning over the wall and plucking...
When the two armies Julius Caesar's and Pompey's) were come into Pharsalia, and both encamped there, Pompey's thoughts ran the same way as they had done before, against fighting...
We know almost nothing—about Sextus Empiricus. We do not know when this codifier of Greek skepticism was born or when he died. We do not know where he was born or taught or even if he was Greek rather than a barbarian. He appears to have...
In any case it is well to take care not to form a highly lavorable opinion of a person whose acquaintance you have only recently made, for otherwise you are very likely to be disappointed; and then you will be ashamed of yourself and perhaps...
Resilience isn’t just the ability to persevere. As we’ll see, it is also an outlook we can cultivate to stay focused on the important things in life rather than what is most urgent, and to keep ourselves from being carried away by negative emotions. Sooner or...
Cynicism (Greek: κυνισμός) is a school of Ancient Greek philosophy as practiced by the Cynics (Greek: Κυνικοί, Latin: Cynici). For the Cynics, the purpose of life was to live in virtue, in agreement with nature. As reasoning creatures, people could gain happiness by rigorous training...
The term Physical Intelligence was first used in Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner in 1983. His work established our ini- tial understanding of different intelligences and learning styles. Gardner pro- posed that ‘bodily-kinaesthetic’ intelligence (intelligence derived through phys- ical, practical learning – demonstrated, for example, by those who excel in sport or dance) is equally valid alongside other types of intelligence.* Gardner also identified that ‘intrapersonal’ intelligence (understanding of self) and ‘interpersonal’ intelligence (understanding of others) are as important as the type...
Two Frogs lived together in a marsh. But one hot summer the marsh dried up, and they left it to look for another place to live in: for frogs like damp places if they can get them. By and by they came to a deep...
