Search results for “Kurt Vonnegut”
Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener on the Malady of “Content” and How to Save Creative Culture from the Syphoning of Substance
“When there is communication without need for communication, merely so that someone may earn the social and intellectual prestige of becoming a priest of communication, the quality and communicative value of the message drop like a plummet.”
The Difficult Art of Giving Space in Love: Rilke on Freedom, Togetherness, and the Secret to a Good Marriage
“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”
The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener on Communication, Control, and the Morality of Our Machines
“We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message.”
A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety
“There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
A Laboratory for Feeling and Time: Pioneering Philosopher Susanne Langer on What Gives Music Its Power and How It Illuminates the Other Arts
“Music is ‘significant form,’ and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated sensuous object… Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.”
You Belong Here: An Illustrated Antidote to Our Existential Homelessness
Sweet consolation for the lifelong alienation that afflicts each of us at different times and in different measures.
Kahlil Gibran on the Courage to Weather the Uncertainties of Love
“Think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”
Anatomy of Hatred: The Paradoxical Psychology of How That Which Repels Us Binds Us
“The closer the likeness … the more virulent the hatred.”
How Bach Will Save Your Soul: German Philosopher Josef Pieper on the Hidden Source of Music’s Supreme Power
“Music opens a path into the realm of silence.”
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