Search results for “kierkegaard”
In Praise of Missing Out: Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on the Paradoxical Value of Our Unlived Lives
“Our lived lives might become a protracted mourning for, or an endless tantrum about, the lives we were unable to live. But the exemptions we suffer, whether forced or chosen, make us who we are.”
Michelangelo on Struggle and Creative Integrity
“I do not know which is better, the ill that helps or the good that harms.”
The Aesthetic of Silence: Susan Sontag on Art as a Form of Spirituality and the Paradoxical Role of Silence in Creative Culture
“The art of our time is noisy with appeals for silence. A coquettish, even cheerful nihilism. One recognizes the imperative of silence, but goes on speaking anyway.”
Proust on What Art Does for the Soul and How to Stop Letting Habit Blunt Our Aliveness
“Artists are people who strip habit away and return life to its deserved glory.”
Wanderlust: Rebecca Solnit on Walking and the Mind
“I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.”
Leisure, the Basis of Culture: An Obscure German Philosopher’s Timely 1948 Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Human Dignity in a Culture of Workaholism
“Leisure lives on affirmation. It is not the same as the absence of activity … or even as an inner quiet. It is rather like the stillness in the conversation of lovers, which is fed by their oneness.”
Musicked Down the Mountain: How Oliver Sacks Saved His Own Life by Literature and Song
The extraordinary survival story of “a creature of muscle, motion and music, all inseparable and in unison with each other.”
Where Children Play: Photographs of Playgrounds Around the World
From Bolivia to Bhutan, a visual ethnography of childhood experiences.
On Being Too Much for Ourselves: Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on Balance and the Necessary Excesses of Life
“There are situations in which it is more dangerous to keep your balance than to lose it.”
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