Reads tagged with “philosophy”
Neuroscientist Sam Harris Selects 12 Books Everyone Should Read
From Bertrand Russell to the Buddha, or why you should spend a weekend reading the Qur’an.
How Kindness Became Our Forbidden Pleasure
“We are never as kind as we want to be, but nothing outrages us more than people being unkind to us.”
Why the Sky Enchants Us: Our Longing for Transcendence and How Myths Elevate Human Life
“Human beings have always been mythmakers… We are meaning-seeking creatures.”
The Aesthetic of Silence: Susan Sontag on Art as a Form of Spirituality and the Paradoxical Role of Silence in Creative Culture
“The art of our time is noisy with appeals for silence. A coquettish, even cheerful nihilism. One recognizes the imperative of silence, but goes on speaking anyway.”
An Experiment in Love: Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Six Pillars of Nonviolent Resistance and the Ancient Greek Notion of ‘Agape’
“Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can only be done by projecting the ethic of love to the center of our lives.”
35-Year-Old Emerson’s Extraordinary Harvard Divinity School Address on the Divine Transcendence of Nature
In praise of the sentiment through which the soul comes to know itself.
Art and the Mind’s Eye: How Drawing Trains You to See the World More Clearly and to Live with a Deeper Sense of Presence
A passionate case for learning “to search into the cause of beauty, and penetrate the minutest parts of loveliness.”
Declaration of the Independence of the Mind: An Extraordinary 1919 Manifesto Signed by Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Jane Addams, and Other Luminaries
“We commit ourselves never to serve anything but the free Truth that has no frontiers and no limits and is without prejudice against races or castes.”
The Magic Box: A Whimsical Vintage Children’s Book for Grownups About Life, Death, and How To Be More Alive Every Day
“This book was written outside the cemetery wall … in memory of life, the wonder & pain of it & the unspeakable worthwhileness of every second of it.”
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