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Make Yourself a Seer: The Teenage Arthur Rimbaud on How to Be a Poet and a Prophet of Possibility
“The day of a single universal language will dawn!… This language will be of the soul, for the soul, encompassing everything, scents, sounds, colors, one thought mounting another.”
A Victorian Visionary’s Prescient Case for Animal Rights and Vegetarianism
“Once upon a time your fore-fathers made no scruple about not only killing, but also eating their relations.”
Heroism and the Human Search for Meaning: Ernest Becker on the Hidden Root of Our Existential Longing
“To become conscious of what one is doing to earn his feeling of heroism is the main self-analytic problem of life.”
2,000 Years of Kindness
From Marcus Aurelius to Einstein, poets and philosophers on the deepest wellspring of our humanity.
The Poetry of Science: A Victorian Portal to Wonder
“Truth cannot die; it passes from mind to mind, imparting light in its progress, and constantly renewing its own brightness during its diffusion. The True is the Beautiful; and the truths revealed to the mind render us capable of perceiving new beauties on the earth.”
Love’s Work: Philosopher Gillian Rose on the Value of Getting It Wrong
“You may be weaker than the whole world but you are always stronger than yourself. Let me send my power against my power… Let me discover what it is that I want and fear from love. Power and love, might and grace.”
What It Takes to Grow: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Karen Horney on the Key to Self-Realization
“Self-knowledge… is not an aim in itself, but a means of liberating the forces of spontaneous growth. In this sense, to work at ourselves becomes not only the prime moral obligation, but… the prime moral privilege.”
The Life of Trees: A Poem
“I want to sleep and dream the life of trees, beings from the muted world…”
Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness
“Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”
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