Stoic Sage

Those who are well constituted in the body endure both the cold and the heat: and so those who are well constituted in the soul endure anger and grief and excessive joy and the other affects. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoicsage/support

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoicsage/support

But what is philosophy? Does it simply mean preparing ourselves for what may come? So, what should each of us say to every trial we face? This is what I’ve trained for, this is my philosophy. Today’s guest, Shane from Renaissance Wisdom, gives insight into early philosophy and how we translate that to modern philosophy. @renaissancewisdom --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/po...

Sometimes, even to live is an act of courage. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoicsage/support

Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoicsage/support

Man conquers the world by conquering himself. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoicsage/support

He who is unable to live in society, must either be a beast or a God. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoicsage/support

Fight to be the person philosophy tried to make you --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoicsage/support

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoicsage/support

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoicsage/support

The only thing that isn’t worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly. And to be patient with those who don’t --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoicsage/support

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as to not injure future ones. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoicsage/support

Define for me now what the “indifferences” are. Whatever thing we cannot control. Tell me the upshot. They are nothing to me. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoicsage/support

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoicsage/support

When someone wrongs you, ask yourself: What made him do it? Once you understand his concept of good and evil, you'll feel sorry for him and cease to either be amazed or angry. If his concept is similar to yours, then you will be bound to forgive him since you would have acted as he did in similar circumstances. But if you do not share his ideas of good and evil, then you should find it even ea...

Today’s guest, Jolie, discusses love from the mind of the Devine Feminine. “Nature bore us related to one another … She instilled in us a mutual love and made us compatible … Let us hold everything in common; we stem from a common source. Our fellowship is very similar to an arch of stones, which would fall apart, if they did not reciprocally support each other.” --- Support this podcast: https://...

I shall show you a love potion without a drug, without a herb; without the incantation of any sorceress: if you want to be loved, love. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoicsage/support

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoicsage/support

There are three things in which a man ought to exercise himself who would be wise and good. The first concerns the desires, the second concerns the movements toward and from an object, the third concerns freedom from deception and rashness in judgement, and generally it concerns the assents. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoicsage/support

Philosophic doctrine, say the Stoics, falls into three parts: one physical, another ethical, and the third logical. Zeno of Citium was the first to make this division in his Exposition of Doctrine. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoicsage/support

Nothing is more hostile to a firm grasp on knowledge than self delusion - Zeno --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoicsage/support

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoicsage/support

When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one’s energy, that one’s modesty, another’s generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we’re practically showered with them. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoicsage/support

A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoicsage/support

Whoever then understands what is good, can also know how to love; but he who cannot distinguish good from bad, and things which are neither good nor bad from both, can he possess the power of loving? To love, then, is only in the power of the wise. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoicsage/support