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German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer; his essays “Wisdom of Life” and “Counsels and Maxims,” although not explicitly Stoical, have a distinctly Stoical tone.
William B. Irvine • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
I believe the influence of Kierkegaard on Camus is underestimated. I believe Dennis Gabor may very well have been the Antichrist. I believe Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror. I believe, with Hegel, that transcendence is absorption.
David Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest
A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
Viktor Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
The psychoanalyst Philip M. Bromberg wrote, “Health is the ability to stand in the spaces between realities without losing any of them.