Life can be truly rotten, but words are among the consolations available to us. We spend a lot of time marvelling at works of ...

Some argue that our lives derive meaning from our ability to see them as an ongoing story. So is telling our own life story ...

Jack en poy, oli oli hoy! It was only when I was already an adult that I discovered that the closed fist game I used to play ...

Lessons from Marcus Aurelius Welcome to WisdomTalks! Dive into the world of stoicism and explore how the philosophy of Marcus ...

Arash Vossoughi is one of the world's leading mentors committed to helping YOU achieve personal freedom. Voss Coaching Co. As a success coach, I am often asked what I regard as the most important keys ...

Diogenes of Sinope, a beggar who lived on the streets of Athens in the fourth century B.C.E., has been hailed as the progenitor of performance art, an inspiration for the Occupy movement, and, by the ...

From Plato to Stephen Covey, it’s long been argued that life is more meaningful if guided by a foundational personal philosophy. To that end, here are seven tensions the resolutions of which can help ...

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. Then help came—in the form, as Boethius tells it, of a mysterious and divine visitor to his cell: ...

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche were largely overlooked during their lifetimes, so professional ...

Recently, while presenting before the academic and administrative staff of a smaller liberal arts college, I had an interesting encounter. We were training on the run-hide-fight concepts to faculty ...