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Descartes on Opinion vs. Reason, the Key to a Wakeful Mind, and the Discipline of Critical Introspection
“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to apply it well.”
Political Emotions: Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How to Tame Our Raging Reactivity and Nurture Our Noblest Civic Selves
“We need … to investigate, and to cherish, whatever helps us to see the uneven and often unlovely destiny of human beings in the world with humor, tenderness, and delight, rather than with absolutist rage for an impossible sort of perfection.”
Audre Lorde on the Indivisibility of Identity and the Importance of Arts Education and Arts Funding
“The shortest statement of philosophy I have is my living, or the word ‘I.’”
The Story Behind “Silent Spring”: How Rachel Carson’s Countercultural Courage Catalyzed the Environmental Movement
“It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to have the opportunity to speak out — to many thousands of people — on something so important.”
Meet Mary Somerville: The Brilliant Woman for Whom the Word “Scientist” Was Coined
How a Scottish polymath forever changed the course of gender in science and made a high art of connecting the seemingly disconnected.
Hermann Hesse on Little Joys, Breaking the Trance of Busyness, and the Most Important Habit for Living with Presence
“The high value put upon every minute of time, the idea of hurry-hurry as the most important objective of living, is unquestionably the most dangerous enemy of joy.”
Are You an Echo: The Remarkable Story of the Forgotten Young Woman Who Became Japan’s Most Beloved Children’s Poet
A celebration of indiscriminate empathy and a sensitive reminder that the tragic and the transcendent can coexist.
To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World: Pioneering Psychotherapist Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, the Loneliness of Mental Illness, and the Healing Power of Believing in a Person’s Inextinguishable Inner Light
How a visionary woman persisted in leading a quiet revolution in mental health.
Simone de Beauvoir on Atheism, the Ultimate Frontier of Hope, and the Key to Moving Beyond the Simplistic Divide of Optimism and Pessimism
“To fight unhappiness one must first expose it, which means that one must dispel the mystifications behind which it is hidden so that people do not have to think about it.”
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