There are two kinds of hardening, one of the understanding, the other of the sense of shame: when a man is resolved not to assent to what is manifest, nor to desist from contradictions.
Most of us are afraid of mortification of the body, and would contrive all means to avoid such a thing, but we care not about the soul’s mortification.
And indeed with regard to the soul, if a man be in such a state as not to apprehend anything, or understand at all, we think that he is in a bad condition; but if the sense of shame and modesty are deadened, this we call even power (or strength).
EPICTETUS
6
210 reads
CURATED FROM
IDEAS CURATED BY
“There are two kinds of hardening: one of the understanding, the other of the sense of shame.”
“
Similar ideas
Buildings affect our self-conception
Buildings have a great influence over our self-conception. Very often, we don't have a stable sense of our value or society. On some days, things can feel tolerable, and we have faith in our fellow humans. But on other days, we sense our mood dropping. We wonder about the cruelty...
5 Major Plot Hole Errors
- Illogical Events: An all-powerful villain is easily defeated.
- Contradictions: A character’s personality changes greatly between two scenes with no explanation.
- Unresolved Storylines: A secondary character is given their own s...
The Three Stoic Disciplines
A good character cannot be developed without a proper understanding and implementation of all three Stoic disciplines, which are:
- The discipline of desire (also referred to as Stoic acceptance)
- The discipline of action (known also as Stoic phil...
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates