Reads tagged with “philosophy”
What Trees Teach Us About Human Nature, Relationships, and the Secret to Lasting Love: Wisdom from a 17th-Century Gardener
“Not only rational and irrational, but even inanimate creatures have a voice, and speak loudly to men, and it is our duty to learn their language, and hearken to them.”
The Dalai Lama’s Daily Routine and Information Diet
“To understand the Dalai Lama … perhaps it’s most useful to see him as a doctor of the soul.”
The Value of a Compassionate Lie
A poignant reminder that a life of nuance in a black-and-white culture is the greatest art of all.
Wanderlust: Rebecca Solnit on Walking and the Mind
“I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.”
The Light of the World: Elizabeth Alexander on Love, Loss, and the Boundaries of the Soul
“Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss.”
Saul Bellow’s Spectacular Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech on How Art and Literature Ennoble the Human Spirit
“Only art penetrates … the seeming realities of this world. There is another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of. This other reality is always sending us hints, which without art, we can’t receive.”
On Being Too Much for Ourselves: Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on Balance and the Necessary Excesses of Life
“There are situations in which it is more dangerous to keep your balance than to lose it.”
In Praise of Darkness: Henry Beston on How the Beauty of Night Nourishes the Human Spirit
“For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in its stream of stars — pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across eternal seas of space and time.”
I, Pencil: A Brilliant Vintage Allegory of How Everything Is Connected
“If you can become aware of the miraculousness which I symbolize, you can help save the freedom mankind is so unhappily losing.”
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