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Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius: "Remember that all is opinion"
5+ hour, 42+ min ago (351+ words) "Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest", Marcus Aurelius wrote to himself in the second book of his Meditations....
Thought of the day by Stoic philosopher Seneca: "What is more foolish than refusing to learn, simply because one has not been learning for a long time?"
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (393+ words) I read a stat recently that stuck with me. In a December 2025 YouGov survey of over 2,000 US adults, roughly 40% said they did not read a single book in 2025....
Thought of the day by Stoic Philosopher Marcus Aurelius "I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others."
1+ week, 15+ hour ago (285+ words) There is a line for this feeling, and it is roughly two thousand years old. Marcus Aurelius wrote it in his private notebook: "I have often wondered how it is...
Physicist Roger Penrose has spent decades arguing that consciousness isn't something the brain produces, but that explaining it will require physics we haven't yet discovered
1+ week, 4+ day ago (266+ words) Roger Penrose does not think a computer will ever be conscious, and he does not think a brain running on ordinary neural computation would be conscious either. Published July 4, 2026 Roger Penrose does not think a computer will ever be conscious,…...
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
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Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Epictetus: "Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things."
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Thought of the day from Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius: "No one loses any other life than this which he is living, nor lives any other than this which he is losing."
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Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Seneca: "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (343+ words) A few years back I got into Stoicism, the way a lot of people do: a bit lost, looking for something that felt less like self-help and more like clear thinking. By Mal James · Editorial process Published May 30, 2026 I am…...
Thought of the day by Albert Einstein: "The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible."
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