Often we can change things, and a realistic attitude - including envisioning worse case scenarios - actually helps to accomplish that change. But if you truly cannot do anything about something, then why on earth would you want to make… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
"Fate permitting" is a standard Stoic phrase meant to remind ourselves that planning things is up to us, but the ultimate outcomes are not under our control. It helps us to develop an attitude of equanimity toward the universe. We… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
Death itself is a natural occurrence, it is unavoidable, and the Stoics thought that part of philosophical practice is to get comfortable with the… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all. — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“The many-worlds theory basically maintains that the reason quantum mechanics seems so strange is because we have access to only one of an infinite… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“as astronomer Carl Sagan once aptly put it, you do not want to keep your mind so open that your brain is likely to… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an open and… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
I believe Stoicism can help anyone who takes it seriously and begins to practice it. It will help them flourish because it will provide… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“Following the Post Modernist route, we may indeed never arrive at meaning, but not because meaning is not there... only because we are lost… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
I can't speak for others, but I find the fundamental idea that a life worth living is one during which one strives every day… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
The Stoic discipline of action, which is connected to the virtue of justice, says that we ought to treat others fairly and we should… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“Or maybe, another explanation goes, we are in fact surrounded by ETs and simply don't know it, perhaps because they decided to make the… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“Science progresses. Ideology tends to linger unchanged, and often unquestioned.” — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
I don't see any Stoic practice as problematic or risky, but I would advise to engage in extreme versions of the negative visualization exercise… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
