Huwa tunaamini sana watu kwa kile wanachotuambia, hata kama wanatudanganya. Tunaamini watu wanatuambia ukweli, hasa pale wanapojiamini katika kusema wanachotuambia. Na wale wenye nia ya kutudanganya, huwa wana mbinu za kutufanya tuamini wanachotuambia. Kama usipokuwa makini, ni rahisi sana kuingia kwenye kudanganywa au kutapeliwa na wengine. Njia pekee ya kujua (more…)
“Show me that the good life doesn’t consist in its length, but in its use, and that it is possible—no, entirely too common—for a person who has had a long life to have lived too little.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 49.10b Ni siku nyingine mpya, siku nzuri na ya kipekee sana (more…)
Katika viumbe hai wote ambao tuko hapa duniani, sisi binadamu ndiyo tumepewa uwezo mkubwa wa kufikiri, kupanga na kufanya maamuzi. Wanyama wengine wote wanaendesha maisha yao kwa msukumo wa kupata wanachotaka au kuepuka hatari. Simba akiwa na njaa atawinda swala, na hataacha kuwinda mpaka apate chakula. Swala akimwona simba atakimbia (more…)
“You get what you deserve. Instead of being a good person today, you choose instead to become one tomorrow.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.22 “I don’t complain about the lack of time . . . what little I have will go far enough. Today—this day—will achieve what no tomorrow will fail (more…)
Mwangalie mtu yeyote anayelalamika kwamba maisha ni magumu na mambo hayaendi, na wote utakuta wana sababu moja nyuma ya ugumu huo wa maisha. Iwe ni wewe binafsi au watu wanaokuzunguka, ukiangalia lazima utaona sababu moja kubwa inayopelekea maisha kuwa magumu. Sababu hiyo ni mazoea na ukawaida. Kufanya vitu kwa mazoea (more…)
“But what is philosophy? Doesn’t it simply mean preparing ourselves for what may come? Don’t you understand that really amounts to saying that if I would so prepare myself to endure, then let anything happen that will? Otherwise, it would be like the boxer exiting the ring because he took (more…)
Biashara kuu ya vyombo vya habari na mitandao ya kijamii ni umakini wa watu. Kadiri chombo kinavyokuwa na umakini wa watu wengi, ndivyo kinavyofanikiwa zaidi. Kwa sababu chombo kikishakusanya umakini wa watu wengi, kinaweza kuwatangazia vitu mbalimbali ambavyo watu wanakilipa chombo hicho kutangaza. Hivi ndivyo mitandao ya kijamii na hata (more…)
“What’s the point of having countless books and libraries, whose titles could hardly be read through in a lifetime. The learner is not taught, but burdened by the sheer volume, and it’s better to plant the seeds of a few authors than to be scattered about by many.” —SENECA, ON (more…)
Kila mmoja wetu kuna wakati anajikuta njia panda, asijue ni kipi cha kufanya, hatua ipi ya kuchukua katika mengi anayoweza kufanya au kwa kuwa hakuna anachoweza kufanya kabisa. Nyakati kama hizi ndiyo zinawatofautisha wale wanaofanikiwa na wanaoshindwa. Wale wanaoshindwa huwa wanakubali kwamba hawajui au hakuna hatua wanayoweza kuchukua, hivyo hawachukui (more…)
“That’s why the philosophers warn us not to be satisfied with mere learning, but to add practice and then training. For as time passes we forget what we learned and end up doing the opposite, and hold opinions the opposite of what we should.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.9.13–14 Ni siku nyingine (more…)