A Stoic Breviary: Classical Wisdom in Daily Practice

Building upon many years of privately shared thoughts on the real benefits of Stoic Philosophy, Liam Milburn eventually published a selection of Stoic passages that had helped him to live well. They were accompanied by some of his own personal reflections. This blog hopes to continue his mission of encouraging the wisdom of Stoicism in the exercise of everyday life. All the reflections are taken from his notes, from late 1992 to early 2017.

Sunday, August 5, 2018

All is Vanity

I've always enjoyed images like this one, the ones that play with our visual perception in order to play with our intellectual and moral perception.

Now for the sake of completeness, I'd like to see one with a self-absorbed man fixing his hair in his rear-view mirror, or a pompous politician gazing into his teleprompter.

IMAGE: C. Allan Gilbert, All is Vanity (1892)

A Stoic Breviary: Classical Wisdom in Daily Practice

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Sunday, August 5, 2018

All is Vanity

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