Philosophy

3 Philosophy Quotes to Get Out of a Reading Slump

We read philosophy for wisdom, and for life lessons and one of them can be to become a better reader, to read more, or to just read when...

The Power of Boredom: Why Reading Requires Embracing Boredom

Soren Kierkegaard, Plato, Socrates, and Friedrich Nietzsche on Confronting Boredom as a Gateway. In our relentless pursuit of discipline,...

Conversations with Ourselves

Changing the Internal Dialogue with Philosophy and Psychology The dialogue we have with ourselves shapes our landscape, extending to the...

Summarizing Seneca’s Letters from A Stoic

"... an artist derives more pleasure from painting than from having completed a picture." - Seneca I’ve been meaning, for the longest...

Exploring existentialism in Alberto Moravia’s Contempt

Alberto Moravia, even before Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre Alberto Moravia writes about existentialism through his characters. In...

On The Heights of Despair by E. M. Cioran

I insist you find your bearings in less intense writers before plunging into the mental construct that is the philosophy (or...

Literary Theme: Existential Horror

A few books that portray the theme of horror. Existential horror relates to the meaning of human existence, our notions of reality, our...

The Stranger by Albert Camus

In Albert Camus’s The Stranger, you are put in front of the immediate ambiguity of the world. The kind that you experience in ordinary...

On communicating freely: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

One of the things that we don’t consider we can change about ourselves is our ability to speak. Speaking to others is a skill we can...

On friendship: Letters From A Stoic by Seneca & Khalil Gibran's The Prophet

This article is about one of the most thoughtful and down-to-earth books I’ve ever read. It’s a non-fiction book of short essays. It’s...