- Mar 29
- 6 min
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...
- Feb 14
- 3 min
Exploring existentialism in Alberto Moravia’s Contempt, before Albert Camus & Jean-Paul Sartre
Alberto Moravia writes about existentialism through his characters. In fact, he was, in many ways, even celebrated as the founder of the...
- Feb 5
- 2 min
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...
- Oct 4, 2021
- 4 min
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...
- Mar 4, 2021
- 4 min
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...
- Feb 12, 2021
- 3 min
On friendship: Letters From A Stoic by Seneca
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...