PhLiArS

Philosophy, Life, Art, Science. Usually just getting by, but sometimes really witty. On a good day.

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[jmelcr]

"The end of one story ...

... is the start of another."

[stoicbreviary]

Discourses 1.6.4

Reflections on Epictetus

When I only think about how I can make more noise or find new ways to gratify myself, I am not really doing much thinking. . . .

[jmelcr]

""" I am prone to offering cheap excuses. “Sometimes I just need to stop thinking, and get the job done!”

By all means, let me avoid irrelevant abstractions and pointless worries; such diversions are hardly rational. At the same time, let me remember that there can never be any practical benefit in life without the application of sober prudence. The job won’t get done in the absence of some sound thinking, because I won’t know what the job is to begin with.

If I don’t know why it is true and good, then I shouldn’t be doing it. When I only think about how I can make more noise or find new ways to gratify myself, I am not really doing much thinking. """

[incidentalcomics]

[thoughtkick]

“Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

[philosophybits]

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”

— George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such

[jmelcr]

Bless them!

[stoicbreviary]

Epictetus, Discourses 2.11.3

Can you then point us to anything beyond your own opinion which will enable us to apply our conceptions better? Does the madman do anything

It may be too late to call upon the philosopher after the pantry is bare and the bombs are falling. . . .

[jmelcr]

"... political demagogues, who prop up an ideology by so desperately hating the fellow across the aisle. Perhaps you feel comfortably smug, but that doesn’t make it true."

[stoicbreviary]

Epictetus, Discourses 2.11.3

Can you then point us to anything beyond your own opinion which will enable us to apply our conceptions better? Does the madman do anything

It may be too late to call upon the philosopher after the pantry is bare and the bombs are falling. . . .

[jmelcr]

"... political demagogues, who prop up an ideology by so desperately hating the fellow across the aisle. Perhaps you feel comfortably smug, but that doesn’t make it true."

[philosophybits]

“I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.”

— Henry David Thoreau, “Life Without Principle”

[vargulfur]

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (tr. Martin Hammond)

[jmelcr]

I like to feel the esence of the world through the contains of reality.

[incidentalcomics]

A poetry comic for a rainy Saturday from my book THE SHAPE OF IDEAS 🌨

[incidentalcomics]

A poetry comic for a rainy Saturday from my book THE SHAPE OF IDEAS 🌨

[stoicbreviary]

How small a part of the boundless and unfathomable time is assigned to every man, for it is very soon swallowed up in the eternal!  And how small a part of the whole substance; and how small a part of the Universal Soul; and on what a small clod of the whole earth you creep!  Reflecting on all this, consider nothing to be great, except to act as your nature leads you, and to endure that which the Common Nature brings. 

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 12.32 

IMAGE: Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, Eternity (1906) 

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Happy Mother's Day!

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Moral Letters 38.1

Reflections on Seneca

We thrive in the company of our fellows, and we wither away when we are locked into separate boxes. . . .

[jmelcr]

" ... for we do not need many words, but, rather, effective words. "

[incidentalcomics]

This is how it feels to write a first draft.