Sublime

True philosophy has one question that contains all others: “How do you live the best life?” I assure you that this question cannot be answered by climbing the power ladder placed in front of you as a child. This question is answered by holding the perspective of the Universe in our mind, observing the essence of its movements (which often can’t be

2° Dans l’Antiquité, la philosophie est donc un mode d’existence qui exige du philosophe une transformation de toute sa vie intérieure et un engagement personnel à chacun des instants de sa vie.

Philosophy is nowadays discredited, but yet it was always the chiefest concern of the wise.

Pour ma part, je crois fermement, naïvement peut-être, à la possibilité, pour l’homme moderne, de vivre, non pas la sagesse (les Anciens, pour la plupart, ne croyaient pas à cette possibilité), mais un exercice, toujours fragile, de la sagesse, sous la triple forme que définissait, nous l’avons vu, Marc Aurèle : effort pour pratiquer l’objectivité

Many in the last few years have taken a keen interest in the works of Epicurus, Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius. And not for intellectual reasons—they find secrets to the meaning of their lives therein, and it brings them happiness.

Philosophy is created by intellectuals who rarely ask themselves how to apply their ideas in real life.

She observed that we need not expect moral philosophers to ‘live by’ their ideas in a simplistic way, as if they were following a set of rules. But we can expect them to show how their ideas are lived in. We should be able to look in through the windows of a philosophy, as it were, and see how people occupy it, how they move about and how they cond