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And reality matters because it is the only thing that can satisfy us.

Adam Phillips • Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

Thus it is no surprise that philosophers across history are preoccupied with two interrelated concerns: rigorous thought and virtuous living. Deep contemplation about the true, the good and the beautiful cannot be separated from living it out.

Paul Copan • A Little Book for New Philosophers: Why and How to Study Philosophy (Little Books)

You can generally count on a philosopher to ask a question about the question.

Kunal Das • The Quantum Rules: How the Laws of Physics Explain Love, Success, and Everyday Life

la conviction de Kant, qui dans son cours de Logique explique que les trois questions fondamentales de la philosophie (Que puis-je savoir ? Que dois-je faire ? Que m’est-il permis d’espérer ?), peuvent se résumer à une seule : Qu’est-ce que l’homme4 ? Cette question n’est pas abstraite, mais la manière la plus concrète dont tout homme peut répondre

Fabrice Midal • Comment la philosophie peut nous sauver. 22 méditations décisives (French Edition)

The idea of building knowledge from first principles has a long tradition in philosophy. In the Western canon it goes back to Plato and Socrates, with significant contributions from Aristotle and Descartes. Essentially, they were looking for the foundational knowledge that would not change and that we could build everything else on, from our ethica

Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts

Yes, philosophy is a serious, rigorous academic discipline, with a lot of people reading Wittgenstein in the original German and pontificating away in a paywalled journal article. But it’s also, I think, a discipline that is meant to resonate with our ordinary lives, our real lives outside the ivory tower. In our real lives, we’re falling in love a... See more

how to change your life, part 2: agnes callard's aspiration

This is not a simple philosophy to prescribe. It does not have the advantage of being straightforward, there is no umbrella of specifics or rules. But it is the opposite of stoicism: A philosophy of noticing the world and remaining open to it. It is the acknowledgement that ultimate goals lie beyond ourselves, in society and family, and in the worl... See more

Simon Sarris • Stoicism Is Not Enough

on Aristotle’s theory of middle age as the prime of life, the body being most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five, the mind at forty-nine.

Kieran Setiya • Midlife: A Philosophical Guide

We can escape the self-destructive cycle of pursuit, resolution, and renewal, of attainments archived or unachieved. The way out is to find sufficient value in atelic activities, activities that have no point of conclusion or limit, ones whose fulfillment lies in the moment of action itself.