Reads tagged with “philosophy”
Vincent van Gogh on Fear, Taking Risks, and How Making Inspired Mistakes Moves Us Forward
“However meaningless and vain, however dead life appears, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth… steps in and does something.”
Philosopher Erich Fromm on the Art of Loving and What Is Keeping Us from Mastering It
“There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love.”
David Hume on Human Nature, the Myth of Selfishness, and Why Vanity Is Proof of Virtue Rather Than Vice
“To love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable actions for their own sake [that] it is almost impossible to have the latter without some degree of the former.”
The 12th-Century Jewish Philosopher Moses Maimonides on Truth, Doubt, and How to Read Intelligently
“Do not read superficially, lest you do me an injury, and derive no benefit for yourself.”
Kafka on Love and Patience
“Patience is the master key to every situation. One must have sympathy for everything, surrender to everything, but at the same time remain patient and forbearing.”
Order, Disorder, and Oneself: French Polymath Paul Valéry on How to Never Misplace Anything
“Disorder comes of putting things in places you have laboriously thought up or finally discovered after a series of experiments, calculations, deviations, and successive swerves from your natural bent.”
Sylvia Plath on Free Will, the Pillars of Personhood, and What Makes Us Who We Are
“I: how firm a letter; how reassuring the three strokes: one vertical, proud and assertive, and then the two short horizontal lines in quick, smug succession.”
Philosopher Alain Badiou on Why We Fall and How We Stay in Love
“Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.”
9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings
Reflections on the rewards of seeking out what magnifies your spirit.
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