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James Joyce’s Love Letters

“If I am to write anything fine or noble in the future I shall do so only by listening at the doors of your heart.”

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The Intelligence of Emotions: Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How Storytelling Rewires Us and Why Befriending Our Neediness Is Essential for Happiness

“Emotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature, they are parts, highly complex and messy parts, of this creature’s reasoning itself.”

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Legendary Victorian Art Critic John Ruskin on the Value of Imperfection and How Manual Labor Confers Dignity Upon Creative Work

“It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.”

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Stewart Brand’s Reading List: 76 Books to Sustain and Rebuild Humanity

From Homer to home health, by way of Shakespeare, conceptual physics, and a gender-imbalance lament.

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7 Fundamental Meditations on Faith

What the magician Penn Gillette has to do with a ring of earth 700 miles north of the equator.

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Jane Austen’s Advice on Love, Marriage, and How to Rebuff a Suitor with Clarity and Kindness

“Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without affection.”

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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.”

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The Crossroads of Should and Must: An Intelligent Illustrated Field Guide to Finding Your Bliss

“Should is how other people want us to live our lives… Choosing Must is the greatest thing we can do with our lives.”

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How to Avoid Work: A 1949 Guide to Doing What You Love

“Life really begins when you have discovered that you can do anything you want.”

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The Science of Why We Cry and the Three Types of Tears

What stress hormones have to do with the social machinery of sympathy.

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Search results for “joseph campbell”

“If I am to write anything fine or noble in the future I shall do so only by listening at the doors of your heart.”

“Emotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature, they are parts, highly complex and messy parts, of this creature’s reasoning itself.”

“It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.”

From Homer to home health, by way of Shakespeare, conceptual physics, and a gender-imbalance lament.

What the magician Penn Gillette has to do with a ring of earth 700 miles north of the equator.

“Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without affection.”

“Human beings have always been mythmakers… We are meaning-seeking creatures.”

“Should is how other people want us to live our lives… Choosing Must is the greatest thing we can do with our lives.”

“Life really begins when you have discovered that you can do anything you want.”

What stress hormones have to do with the social machinery of sympathy.

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