Arthur Rubinstein spoke the clearest through music, recognizing the strength of the bond between music and the soul. Allowing him to become clear with the virtues of life while and through the natural, organic medium that music has become.

The title of today's post comes from a belief involving Hellenistic philosophy, stoicism. It concerns that the active relationship between determinism and human freedom is through the belief that it is virtuous to maintain a will that is in agreement with nature. The best indication of an individual's philosophy was not what a person said but through how they behaved, such becomes the philosophy that stoicism is a way of life, so much an argument towards nature.

Rubinstein performs Brahms' Intermezzo in B-flat minor, Op.117 No.2 in a 1973 concert


Stoicism: teaches the development of self-control and fortitude as a means of overcoming destructive emotions; the philosophy holds that becoming a clear and unbiased thinker allows one to understand the universal reason.