Modern Philosophy Basics

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William B. Irvine

A Guide to the Good Life

The good life is not a destination. It's a daily practice.

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Dale Carnegie

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday — and all is well.

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Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman

Lives of the Stoics

You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

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Viktor E. Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.

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Ray Dalio

Principles

Truth — or, more precisely, an accurate understanding of reality — is the essential foundation for any good outcome.

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Erich Fromm

The Art of Loving

The mature person has come to the point where they are their own mother and their own father. Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character.

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Jonathan Haidt

The Happiness Hypothesis

Happiness is not something that you can find, acquire, or achieve directly. You have to get the conditions right and then wait.

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Ryan Holiday

The Obstacle Is the Way

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

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Vadim Zeland · 2016

Reality Transurfing (Steps I–V)

The world is a mirror that reflects your relationship to it. When you fight the world it fights you back. When you end the battle the world meets you halfway.