Reads tagged with “philosophy”
What It Takes to Grow: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Karen Horney on the Key to Self-Realization
“Self-knowledge… is not an aim in itself, but a means of liberating the forces of spontaneous growth. In this sense, to work at ourselves becomes not only the prime moral obligation, but… the prime moral privilege.”
How We Render Reality: Attention as an Instrument of Love
“Since our consciousness plays some part in what comes into being, the play of attention can both create and destroy, but it never leaves its object unchanged.”
The Double Flame: Octavio Paz on Love
“Love is a bet, a wild one, placed on freedom. Not my own; the freedom of the Other… A knot made of two intertwined freedoms.”
Loving the Tree of Life: Annie Dillard on How to Bear Your Mortality
“We live and move by splitting the light of the present, as a canoe’s bow parts water.”
Heroism and the Human Search for Meaning: Ernest Becker on the Hidden Root of Our Existential Longing
“To become conscious of what one is doing to earn his feeling of heroism is the main self-analytic problem of life.”
The Paradox of Free Will
The neuroscience, physics, and philosophy of freedom in a universe of fixed laws.
The Heart of Matter: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on Bridging the Scientific and the Sacred
“Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever new-born; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth.”
Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and Our Search for Meaning: Oliver Sacks on ChatGPT, 30 Years Before ChatGPT
“We read excitedly of the latest chemical, computational, or quantum theory of mind, and then ask, ‘Is that all there is to it?'”
Practical Mysticism: Evelyn Underhill’s Stunning Century-Old Manifesto for Secular Transcendence and Seeing the Heart of Reality
“Because mystery is horrible to us, we have agreed for the most part to live in a world of labels; to make of them the current coin of experience, and ignore their merely symbolic character, the infinite gradation of values which they misrepresent.”
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