When you need words of encouragement, you may not immediately think of quotes from Stoic philosophers. After all, being stoic evokes thoughts of calm without emotion. However, Stoicism ...

Vincent van Gogh Stoicism was a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the third century BC. Its name is actually derived from the Greek stoa, meaning porch, because that’s ...

Stoicism is. Why? It may be that the first explanation ... He is a public relations strategist whom the NYTimes piece quotes as saying "If you’re shameless enough, you can sell anything." ...

The ancient Stoics had critics in their own time: Robertson quotes one writer who said its adherents were destined to “grow old in the torpor of a sluggish and, as it were, nerveless life.” ...

Mulligan acknowledges that the fact stoicism can be boiled down to simple quotes from its original philosophers, which are then posted online, can cause a dangerous misreading of its central tenets.

Stoicism is having a major field day right now online and in self-improvement circles. This classical philosophy has been blooming online as a great way of life during tough times — and they ...

How you answer that question will shape how you judge “Beyond Stoicism,” written by three self-proclaimed modern stoics: Massimo Pigliucci, a professor of philosophy at the City College of New ...