How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
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Stoic “logic” included what we today call by that name—that is, the study of formal reasoning, to which the ancient Stoics in fact made fundamental contributions.
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If philosophy was not useful to human life, then it wasn’t useful at all.
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US Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz, who used it in remarks before the Senate on February 29, 1872: “My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”