The beard and the philosopher

The ancients may have been better equipped to see through illusion.

The hardest questions are always the most enduring. Thankfully for us living today, most hard questions have already been asked. Unthankfully for us, most answers have proved insufficient.

One of the hardest questions has been about avoiding self-deception. What is reality and how best to grasp it? Is it within, or without, or in between? How can I see t…