Reads tagged with “philosophy”
Trauma, Growth, and How to Be Twice as Alive: Tove Jansson on the Worm and the Art of Self-Renewal
“Nothing is easy when you might come apart in the middle at any moment.”
An Almanac of Birds: Divinations for Uncertain Days
Three Ways of Being: Life as Fairy Tale, Novel, or Poem
The Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Love and the Meaning of Respect
“Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.”
Nobel-Winning Poet Joseph Brodsky on the Remedy for Existential Boredom
“Try to stay passionate, leave your cool to constellations. Passion, above all, is a remedy against boredom. Another one, of course, is pain… passion’s frequent aftermath.”
What Makes Life Alive and Worth Living: Vasily Grossman on Consciousness, Freedom, and Kindness
Beyond Either/Or: Kierkegaard on the Passion for Possibility and the Key to Resetting Relationships
“Were I to wish for anything I would not wish for wealth and power, but for the passion of the possible, that eye which everywhere, ever young, ever burning, sees possibility.”
The Canon of Solitude: 200 Years of Great Writers, Artists, and Scientists on the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Fertile Aloneness
How to Think Like a Sunflower: Wendell Berry on Turning Conflict into Collaboration
“We are not the authors of ourselves. That we are not is a religious perception, but it is also a biological and a social one. Each of us has had many authors, and each of us is engaged, for better or worse, in that same authorship. We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the making of ourselves and one another.”
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