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The Power to Change Perception

Top 10 Quotes About The Power To Change Your Perception From The Ancient Stoics

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[View Handbook] For the Stoics, the only thing that we have complete control over is our thoughts. It’s normal that we are constantly bombarded with perceptions because our brain is designed by nature to scan everything that we sense in the external world. This so-called “flight-or-fight” response is the same instinct we share with other animals that Mother Nature designed for our own survival. For example, if somebody tries to say something that would endanger our…

Top 10 Quotes About Temperance From the Ancient Stoics

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[View Handbook]Temperance basically means moderation or self-control. The emperor Marcus Aurelius countlessly reminded himself not to be compulsive in his book "The Meditations". He always said that what sets us, humans apart from animals is our ability to control our impulses. Animals are slaves to their senses and desires and he warns about external temptations that could potentially enslave us with our senses. In the modern age, drugs, alcohol and other forms of indulgence and…

Seneca on Virtues

Top 10 Quotes About Living A Life of Virtues From Ancient Stoics

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[View Handbook]As with other philosophies in Ancient Rome, the stoics believe that only thing that matters to achieve the happiness (highest good) are virtues. They are good habits that guarantees a good life. External things like wealth and fame may not necessarily bring you happiness in life it’s all about your behavior to them. For example you may have plenty of money but if you don’t practice temperance in your expenditure you will no longer…

What living in accordance with Nature means for the Stoics

Top 10 Quotes About Living In Accordance With Nature From Ancient Stoics

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[View HandBook] The ancient stoics believe that the universe is governed by the “logos” – a force that keeps the universe in an orderly and rational way. It exists in the universe at a cosmic level such as the force that keeps planets rotating around the sun as well as at the atomic level and the way…

Top 10 Quotes about Philosophy from the Ancient Stoics

Why Philosophy?

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Every element in the universe follows a sense of order from atoms and molecules to the rotation of heavenly bodies in galaxy. Dimitri Mendeleev realized that elements behaves in an “orderly” way so he arrange them into periodic table so that elements that have the same properties are grouped in the same column. Isaac Newton develop the three laws of motion to describe how objects behave under the influence of external force acting upon them.…