Search results for “bertrand russel on happiness”
The New Better Off: Courtney Martin on Reimagining Our Ethos of Success and Reclaiming Our Sense of “Enough”
“That’s the thing about success… it’s only satisfying if it’s defined by you and influenced most deeply by the people you love and trust.”
Existential Therapy from the Universe: Physicist Sean Carroll on How Poetic Naturalism Illuminates Our Human Search for Meaning
“The world is what exists and what happens, but we gain enormous insight by talking about it — telling its story — in different ways.”
The Annihilation of Space and Time: Rebecca Solnit on How Muybridge Froze the Flow of Existence, Shaped Visual Culture, and Changed Our Consciousness
“Before, every face, every place, every event, had been unique, seen only once and then lost forever among the changes of age, light, time. The past existed only in memory and interpretation, and the world beyond one’s own experience was mostly stories.”
Keats on the Joy of Singledom and How Solitude Opens Our Creative Channels to Truth and Beauty
“The roaring of the wind is my wife and the Stars through the window pane are my Children… I do not live in this world alone but in a thousand worlds.”
Albert Camus on Strength of Character and How to Save Our Sanity in Difficult Times
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
Why Do We Love? An Animated Inquiry Into Romance by Philosopher Skye Cleary
“Love is a passion to be chosen and mastered, not sacrificed to.”
George Eliot on Leisure and Our Greatest Source of Restlessness
“Even idleness is eager now… Old Leisure was quite a different personage… Life was not a task to him, but a sinecure.”
Why Love Hurts: The Sociology of How Our Institutions Rather Than Our Personal Psychological Failings Shape the Romantic Agony of Modern Life
“To perform gender identity and gender struggles is to perform the institutional and cultural core dilemmas and ambivalence of modernity.”
Elevating Resolutions for the New Year Inspired by Some of Humanity’s Greatest Minds
Cultivate honorable relationships, resist absentminded busyness, tell the world how to treat you, embrace enoughness, and more.
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