Reads tagged with “philosophy”
Sing, Don’t Scream: D.H. Lawrence on the Strength of Sensitivity
“Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy.”
How to Make the Best of Life: A Visionary Victorian Recipe for Lasting Self-Actualization
“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
A Different Solitude: Pioneering Aviator Beryl Markham on What She Learned About Life in the Bottomless Night
“I learned what every dreaming child needs to know — that no horizon is so far that you cannot get above it or beyond it.”
Emerson on How to Trust Yourself and What Solitude Really Means
“It is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
Leo Tolstoy on the Obsolescence of the State as a Form of Government and the Antidote to Violence
“Violence no longer rests on the belief in its utility, but only on the fact of its having existed so long, and being organized by the ruling classes who profit by it.”
Henry Miller on Friendship and the Relationship Between Creativity and Community
“To have a friend who understands and appreciates your work, one who never lets you down but who becomes more devoted, more reverent, as the years go by, that is a rare experience.”
Kierkegaard on How to Save Yourself
“I am, in the deepest sense, an unhappy individual who since my earliest days have been nailed fast to some suffering close to insanity.”
Barry Lopez on the Cure for Our Existential Loneliness and the Three Tenets of a Full Life
“Existential loneliness and a sense that one’s life is inconsequential, both of which are hallmarks of modern civilizations, seem to me to derive in part from our abandoning a belief in the therapeutic dimensions of a relationship with place.”
The Banquet of Life: Some of the Finest Advice on Growing Old, Growing Young, and Becoming Your Fullest Self
“People ask: ‘Would you or would you not like to be young again?’ Of course, it is really one of those foolish questions that never should be asked, because they are impossible… You cannot unroll that snowball which is you: there is no ‘you’ except your life — lived.”
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