Astronomy and the Beauty of Looking Up: Exploring the Mysteries of the Universe
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another Plato___ The famous quote “Astronomy…
Author: Farhan Shah
How to Overcome Suffering and Embrace Change: Understanding the Mind’s Predicament
If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when…
The Importance of Action: Understanding the Relationship between Virtue and Knowledge
Knowledge is not necessary for the possession of the virtues, whereas the habits which result from doing just and temperate…
The Relationship between Happiness and Virtue: Exploring the Importance of Virtuous Behavior
No happy man can become miserable, for he will never do acts that are hateful and mean. Aristotle___ The quote…
Taking Responsibility: Key to Personal Growth and Development
It is absurd to make external circumstances responsible and not oneself, and to make oneself responsible for noble acts and…
The Pursuit of Happiness: Money and Its Role in Our Lives
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion since wealth is not the good we are seeking and is…
The Importance of Self-Sufficiency for True Happiness
The self-sufficient we define as that which when isolated, makes life desirable and complete, and such we think happiness to…
The Connection Between Living Well, Doing Well, and Happiness
Men generally agree that the highest good attainable by action is happiness, and identify living well and doing well with…
Why Knowledge Should Be Prioritized Over Wealth
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual. Socrates___ The quote “Prefer knowledge to wealth, for…
Improving Yourself: How Reading Books Helps You Grow and Succeed
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have…