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Alan Watts on Money vs. Wealth

“The moral challenge and the grim problem we face is that the life of affluence and pleasure requires exact discipline and high imagination.”

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George Bernard Shaw on Marriage, the Oppression of Women, and the Hypocrisies of Monogamy

“Promiscuity is a product of slavery and not of liberty.”

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Why War: Einstein and Freud’s Little-Known Correspondence on Violence, Peace, and Human Nature

“Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise.”

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Twain, Sontag, Bradbury, Hitchens, Didion, and more.

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What Is Love? Great Definitions from 400 Years of Great Literature

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything.”

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19th-Century German Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer Presages the Economics and Ethics of the Web and Modern Publishing

A 19th-century critique of the moral failures of linkbait, cat slideshows, and needless pagination.

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“The struggle which evil necessitates is one of the greatest blessings. It makes us strong, patient, helpful men and women. It lets us into the soul of things and teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”

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Alexander Graham Bell on Success, Innovation, and Creativity

“It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider … who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.”

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Inside Kurt Cobain’s Letters and Journals

“No amount of effort can save you from oblivion.”

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The Best Books of 2012: Your 10 Overall Favorites

From children’s existential questions to 100 ideas that changed graphic design, by way of Yayoi Kusama and illustrated scientific mysteries.

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Search results for “bertrand russel on happiness”

Alan Watts on Money vs. Wealth

“The moral challenge and the grim problem we face is that the life of affluence and pleasure requires exact discipline and high imagination.”

George Bernard Shaw on Marriage, the Oppression of Women, and the Hypocrisies of Monogamy

“Promiscuity is a product of slavery and not of liberty.”

Why War: Einstein and Freud’s Little-Known Correspondence on Violence, Peace, and Human Nature

“Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise.”

Cultural Icons on Criticism

Twain, Sontag, Bradbury, Hitchens, Didion, and more.

What Is Love? Great Definitions from 400 Years of Great Literature

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything.”

19th-Century German Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer Presages the Economics and Ethics of the Web and Modern Publishing

A 19th-century critique of the moral failures of linkbait, cat slideshows, and needless pagination.

Helen Keller on Optimism

“The struggle which evil necessitates is one of the greatest blessings. It makes us strong, patient, helpful men and women. It lets us into the soul of things and teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”

Alexander Graham Bell on Success, Innovation, and Creativity

“It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider … who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.”

Inside Kurt Cobain’s Letters and Journals

“No amount of effort can save you from oblivion.”

The Best Books of 2012: Your 10 Overall Favorites

From children’s existential questions to 100 ideas that changed graphic design, by way of Yayoi Kusama and illustrated scientific mysteries.

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Search results for “bertrand russel on happiness”

“The moral challenge and the grim problem we face is that the life of affluence and pleasure requires exact discipline and high imagination.”

“Promiscuity is a product of slavery and not of liberty.”

“Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise.”

Twain, Sontag, Bradbury, Hitchens, Didion, and more.

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything.”

A 19th-century critique of the moral failures of linkbait, cat slideshows, and needless pagination.

“The struggle which evil necessitates is one of the greatest blessings. It makes us strong, patient, helpful men and women. It lets us into the soul of things and teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”

“It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider … who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.”

“No amount of effort can save you from oblivion.”

From children’s existential questions to 100 ideas that changed graphic design, by way of Yayoi Kusama and illustrated scientific mysteries.

View Full Site