The less mainstream philosophers have more to offer than you'd think. — An old 18th-century white man smoking a pipe, with a long white beard and a walking stick, sowls his face at society and lives secluded with nothing but his pen and paper. When we think of philosophers, our minds tend to drift towards the influential 18th and 19th-century thinkers, who…

#3 The homeless dog philosopher of Ancient Greece and his lessons on freedom. — Philosophy is like a cushion that you can always fall back on when life slaps you in the face. After going through some emotionally tough times myself in the last few weeks, I’ve had to really test my philosophy. …

Over 1,600 pages of wisdom concentrated into five actionable lessons — Read one book and you absorb decades worth of life lessons and stories to change how you see the world. That’s all it takes to reshape your whole life. The joys of reading… Nearly two years ago, I found myself in a dark place. I came to the overdue realization…

It was lonely at first. Then I became the person I always wanted to be. — Our friends are some of the most important people in our lives. Especially those we grow up with. We move through life together, we create memories that will last lifetimes, and most of all we are there for each other during the hardships that life hurls at us. I think…

Orwell’s message is more important now than ever before… — Whether you like Orwell or not, his words require our attention. He’s one of those writers you simply cannot ignore, no matter how hard you try. His dark descriptions of dystopian worlds have fascinated people for generations. Perhaps our fascination with his writing tells us that a seed of fear…

2,000 years of wisdom packed into five single words. — I’d rather read a couple of pages from the words of a man who died 2,000 years ago than ever take advice from an internet self-help guru. Want to know why? The whole premise of modern self-help/improvement can trace back its roots to the original writings of some of Greece’s…

This ancient philosophical text is all you need. — 1800 years ago, the wise philosophical words of an impoverished and crippled slave named Epictetus were written for the first time. Epictetus was born into slavery in 55 C.E in modern-day Turkey. He was enslaved in the house of a secretary to the Roman Emperor Nero. His name literally means…

Embrace your cluelessness. — I recently went snowboarding in Montenegro, a small country of 600,000 in South-Eastern Europe. It was a trip with me and four other of my friends. As my other friend and I were experienced snowboarders, and the others had never been on the slopes, we took it upon ourselves to…

Be warned, these three quotes will make you question reality. — Do you know what the definition of genius is? Well, in one of the two definitions stated by the Oxford Dictionary, “Einstein” is stated as the definition. Along with adjectives like brilliant and intellectual. But looking at Einstein himself, your traditional view of what a genius may be, could be…