Advise Quote by Massimo Pigliucci

Stoicism is of no use to me whatsoever. What I'm a big believer in is talking about everything until you're blue in the face.

— David Shields

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

— Anonymous

To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not…

— Julian Baggini

“The single most important practice in Stoic philosophy is differentiating between what we can change and what we can’t. What we have influence over…

— Ryan Holiday

I've gotten a lot of comfort from the philosophy of the Roman Stoics. For me, one of the most powerful ideas of Stoicism is…

— Elif Batuman

“The Stoics, as we have seen, thought tranquility was worth pursuing, and the tranquility they sought, it will be remembered, is a psychological state…

— William B. Irvine

What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?

— Mason Cooley

There are clearly people for whom Stoicism immediately "clicks," it comes natural, and others for whom it doesn't. Then again, Stoicism isn't the only…

— Massimo Pigliucci

The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact…

— Roger Avary

The Stoics appear during a huge time of constant wars and real political strife. And it became very popular, I think, because it's a…

— Derren Brown

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

I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.

— Brian Ferneyhough