Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Death of Socrates (detail, 1787), Jacques-Louis David - Getty Philosophers are constitutively irritating: this is both their ...

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have” — $1.277 trillion in U.S.

Our health and well-being depends on disassociating ourselves from the persistent negative thoughts that can lead to bitterness.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This cover image released by St. Martin's Press shows "How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the ...

'The more I read about Socrates, the less I wonder that they poisoned him.' Why should we still care about a man who did little in his life except talk, and who drank poison in an Athenian prison in ...

Next Thursday, Chicago's National Hellenic Museum will try to give Socrates a more fair trial than what he got in 399 BC, when he was sentenced to death for impiety. Some of the the country's most ...

Socrates’ quote quietly exposes this shift. The “child” in us does not fear truth the way adulthood often does. Honesty simplifies life in ways most people underestimate. A truthful person carries ...