The 22 Greatest Ideas I’ve Ever Found

Consider Supporting MindShift -   / mindshiftskeptic   Video's Mentioned: Epicurus -    • Epicurus: The Philosopher Who Feared No God!   Consolation of Philosophy -    • Philosophy on Death Row! | Boethius & The ...   To mark two years of this channel, I’m sharing the 22 passages that have shaped me most. These aren’t just quotes — they’re the ideas I return to when life demands clarity, courage, or calm. From Emerson to Whitman, Camus to Carson, this is my personal canon. Not scripture, but something sacred. I hope you find the same wisdom in them that I have. Sub! → Turn on notifications for 3 new videos every week! Connect! → Email - [email protected] Give! → Patreon -   / mindshiftskeptic   📚Recommended Reading For Recent Deconverts (affiliate links): https://www.amazon.com/shop/mindshift... Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:32 Thank You 1:52 Ralph Waldo Emerson 2:54 Socrates 3:37 Paul 4:50 Albert Camus 5:29 Plato 6:43 Anne Carson 7:31 Friedrich Nietzsche 9:00 Epicurus 10:39 Fyodor Dostoevsky 11:31 Fernando Pessoa 12:27 Sylvia Plath 13:28 Sam Harris 15:23 Marcus Aurelius 17:12 Epictetus 18:19 Annie Dillard 19:45 Charles Bukowski 20:45 Ernest Hemingway 22:38 Bertrand Russell 23:59 Rainer Maria Rilke 25:24 Lao Tzu 27:03 James Joyce 28:44 Walt Whitman 31:07 Final Thoughts 31:37 Patron Thanks Books Mentioned (Affiliate Links) Letters and Social Aims - https://amzn.to/3RKEDDk Apology (by Plato) - https://amzn.to/44O3f5y The Myth of Sisyphus - https://amzn.to/4jG50Xo The Republic - https://amzn.to/4juggpz Autobiography of Red - https://amzn.to/3EXhkDc Thus Spoke Zarathustra - https://amzn.to/4lPJ2m1 The Consolation of Philosophy - https://amzn.to/3YMPz7p Letter to Menoeceus - https://amzn.to/4lV8xT7 The Brothers Karamazov - https://amzn.to/3RJMhh9 The Book of Disquiet - https://amzn.to/3Yo5w3I The Bell Jar - https://amzn.to/3GxNwNY Free Will - https://amzn.to/4iIkUiE Meditations - https://amzn.to/3EOyQcO Enchiridion - https://amzn.to/3RKTg9A The Writing Life - https://amzn.to/3GysRcR Love is a Dog From Hell - https://amzn.to/4jsb1qm For Whom the Bell Tolls - https://amzn.to/42BSz8N The Conquest of Happiness - https://amzn.to/4jCK0Rf Letters to a Young Contrarian - https://amzn.to/3ENvLK3 Letters to a Young Poet - https://amzn.to/3SdnJgz Tao Te Ching - https://amzn.to/3Ys82pA A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - https://amzn.to/4d2CfBK Leaves of Grass - https://amzn.to/4iDSvdl A sincere thank you to this video's supporters: Supporters will not be shown on this episode due to the length of having all the links present. #WordsToLiveBy #PhilosophyOfLife #PersonalCanon #LifelongLearning #atheist #mindshift #atheism #exchristian #christiandeconstruction #deconstructionhelp #counterapologetics #philosophy