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The Strength of the Sensitive: E.M. Forster on the Personal and Political Power of Empaths and the Relationship Between Creativity and Democracy
The Strength of the Sensitive: E.M. Forster on the Personal and Political Power of Empaths and the Relationship Between Creativity and Democracy

“I believe in… an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet.”

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The Shape of Wonder: N.J. Berrill on the Universe, the Deepest Meaning of Beauty, and the Highest Form of Faith
The Shape of Wonder: N.J. Berrill on the Universe, the Deepest Meaning of Beauty, and the Highest Form of Faith

“We, each of us, you and I, exhibit more of the true nature of the universe than any dead Saturn or Jupiter.”

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You and the Universe: N.J. Berrill’s Poetic 1958 Masterpiece of Cosmic Perspective
You and the Universe: N.J. Berrill’s Poetic 1958 Masterpiece of Cosmic Perspective

“The universe is as we find it and as we discover it within ourselves.”

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How to Tell Love from Not-Love: José Ortega y Gasset on the Chronic Confusions of Our Longing
How to Tell Love from Not-Love: José Ortega y Gasset on the Chronic Confusions of Our Longing

“Loving is perennial vivification… a centrifugal act of the soul in constant flux that goes toward the object and envelops it in warm corroboration, uniting us with it and positively affirming its being.”

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The Ant, the Grasshopper, and the Antidote to the Cult of More: A Lovely Vintage Illustrated Poem About the Meaning and Measure of Enough
The Ant, the Grasshopper, and the Antidote to the Cult of More: A Lovely Vintage Illustrated Poem About the Meaning and Measure of Enough

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Everything Is Happening All the Time: Legendary Physicist John Archibald Wheeler on Death and the Life-Force
Everything Is Happening All the Time: Legendary Physicist John Archibald Wheeler on Death and the Life-Force

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From the Labor Camp to the Pantheon of Literature: How Dostoyevsky Became a Writer
From the Labor Camp to the Pantheon of Literature: How Dostoyevsky Became a Writer

“I have nothing, except for certain, and perhaps very minor, literary abilities.”

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Befriending a Blackbird
Befriending a Blackbird

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Bertrand Russell on the Salve for Our Modern Helplessness and Overwhelm
Bertrand Russell on the Salve for Our Modern Helplessness and Overwhelm

“A way of life cannot be successful so long as it is a mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.”

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Simone Weil on Love and Its Counterfeit
Simone Weil on Love and Its Counterfeit

How to tell a plaything from a necessity.

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