Reads tagged with “philosophy”
Emerson on Individual Integrity and Resisting the Tyranny of the Masses
“Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence… I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.”
Hannah Arendt on Science, the Value of Space Exploration, and How Our Cosmic Aspirations Illuminate the Human Condition
A timeless case against human solipsism and a clarion call for non-egocentric curiosity about the nature of reality.
Inner Preacher vs. Inner Teacher: Ursula K. Le Guin on Meaning-Making and the Artist’s Task
“That’s how an artist can best speak as a member of a moral community: clearly, yet leaving around her words that area of silence, that empty space, in which other and further truths and perceptions can form in other minds.”
Kierkegaard on Time, the Fullness of the Moment, and How to Bridge the Ephemeral with the Eternal
“The moment is not properly an atom of time but an atom of eternity. It is the first reflection of eternity in time, its first attempt, as it were, at stopping time.”
Ursula K. Le Guin on Redeeming the Imagination from the Commodification of Creativity and How Storytelling Teaches Us to Assemble Ourselves
“Literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we’re visiting, life.”
Seneca on Grief and the Key to Resilience in the Face of Loss: An Extraordinary Letter to His Mother
“All your sorrows have been wasted on you if you have not yet learned how to be wretched.”
Erich Fromm on What Self-Love Really Means
“In the experience of love lies the only answer to being human, lies sanity.”
Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy on the Unknown, the Horizons of the Knowable, and Why the Cross-Pollination of Disciplines is the Seedbed of Truth
“What we cannot know creates the space for myth, for stories, for imagination, as much as for science… Stories are crucial in providing the material for what one day might be known. Without stories, we wouldn’t have any science at all.”
The Ethics of Belief: The Great English Mathematician and Philosopher William Kingdon Clifford on the Discipline of Doubt and How We Can Trust a Truth
“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.”
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