Reads tagged with “philosophy”
Anne Lamott on Love, Despair, and Our Capacity for Change
“We can change. People say we can’t, but we do when the stakes or the pain is high enough. And when we do, life can change. It offers more of itself when we agree to give up our busyness.”
The Dalai Lama on Science and Spirituality
“What science finds to be nonexistent we should all accept as nonexistent, but what science merely does not find is a completely different matter.”
Pioneering Conservationist Mardy Murie on Nature, Human Nature, and the Wealth of the Wilderness
“Beauty is a resource in and of itself… I hope the United States of America is not so rich that she can afford to let these wildernesses pass by — or so poor she cannot afford to keep them.”
The Integrity of Parting Ways: Rilke on Unwounding Separation and the Difficult Art of Reimagining Broken Relationships
“Nothing locks people in error as much as the daily repetition of error.”
Physicist Alan Lightman on the Illusion of Absolute Rest
The beautiful and disorienting science of why we are mostly restlessness and empty space.
Elizabeth Gilbert on Love, Loss, and How to Move Through Grief as Grief Moves Through You
“Grief is a force of energy that cannot be controlled or predicted. It comes and goes on its own schedule. Grief does not obey your plans, or your wishes. Grief will do whatever it wants to you, whenever it wants to. In that regard, Grief has a lot in common with Love.”
Ursula K. Le Guin on Time, the Measure of Loyalty, and What Responsibility Really Means
“If time and reason are functions of each other, if we are creatures of time, then we had better know it, and try to make the best of it. To act responsibly.”
The Scientific Poetics of Affection: Lewis Thomas on Altruism and Why We Are Wired for Friendship
“Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends… Maybe altruism is our most primitive attribute, out of reach, beyond our control.”
Adrienne Rich on Resistance, the Liberating Power of Storytelling, and How Reading Emancipates
“The decline in adult literacy means not merely a decline in the capacity to read and write, but a decline in the impulse to puzzle out, brood upon… argue about, turn inside-out in verbal euphoria, the ‘incomparable medium’ of language…”
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