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“Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment.”

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Pythagoras on the Purpose of Life and the Meaning of Wisdom

Abiding insight into the aim of human existence from the man who revolutionized science and coined the word “philosopher.”

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Virginia Woolf on Finding Beauty in the Uncertainty of Time, Space, and Being

Calibration and consolation for those moments when it seems impossible that we should ever again recompose the world’s broken fragments into a harmonious whole.

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Walt Whitman’s Advice on Living a Vibrant and Rewarding Life

“Love the earth and sun and the animals… re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul…”

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Gary Snyder on How to Unbreak the World

“What we’d hope for on the planet is creativity and sanity, conviviality, the real work of our hands and minds.”

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Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How to Live with Our Human Fragility

“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.”

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Viktor Frankl on the Secret to Success

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Kierkegaard on How to Channel Anxiety into Creativity

“Because it is possible to create — creating one’s self, willing to be one’s self… — one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.”

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Reads tagged with “philosophy”

How to Live a Miraculous Life

3 Kinds of Loneliness and 4 Kinds of Forever

The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to Lasting Love

“Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment.”

Pythagoras on the Purpose of Life and the Meaning of Wisdom

Abiding insight into the aim of human existence from the man who revolutionized science and coined the word “philosopher.”

Virginia Woolf on Finding Beauty in the Uncertainty of Time, Space, and Being

Calibration and consolation for those moments when it seems impossible that we should ever again recompose the world’s broken fragments into a harmonious whole.

Walt Whitman’s Advice on Living a Vibrant and Rewarding Life

“Love the earth and sun and the animals… re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul…”

Gary Snyder on How to Unbreak the World

“What we’d hope for on the planet is creativity and sanity, conviviality, the real work of our hands and minds.”

Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How to Live with Our Human Fragility

“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.”

Viktor Frankl on the Secret to Success

Kierkegaard on How to Channel Anxiety into Creativity

“Because it is possible to create — creating one’s self, willing to be one’s self… — one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.”

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Reads tagged with “philosophy”

“Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment.”

Abiding insight into the aim of human existence from the man who revolutionized science and coined the word “philosopher.”

Calibration and consolation for those moments when it seems impossible that we should ever again recompose the world’s broken fragments into a harmonious whole.

“Love the earth and sun and the animals… re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul…”

“What we’d hope for on the planet is creativity and sanity, conviviality, the real work of our hands and minds.”

“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.”

“Because it is possible to create — creating one’s self, willing to be one’s self… — one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.”

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