Reads tagged with “philosophy”
Astrophysicist Janna Levin on Free Will and Whether the Universe Is Infinite or Finite, in Letters to Her Mother
“The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.”
Emerson on Talent vs. Character, Our Resistance to Change, and the Key to True Personal Growth
“People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”
Bertrand Russell on the Vital Role of Boredom and “Fruitful Monotony” in Human Flourishing
“A generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation… in whom every vital impulse slowly withers, as though they were cut flowers in a vase.”
Susan Sontag on the Trouble with Treating Art and Cultural Material as “Content”
“Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art… Our task is to cut back content so that we can see the thing at all.”
Paul Goodman on the Nine Kinds of Silence
“There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy… the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul… the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos.”
Anne Lamott on How We Endure and Find Meaning in a Crazy World
“The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?”
To Paint Is to Love Again: Henry Miller on Art and Why Good Friends Are Essential for Creative Work
“What sustains the artist is the look of love in the eyes of the beholder. Not money, not the right connections, not exhibitions, not flattering reviews.”
The Wisdom of No Escape: Pema Chödrön on Gentleness, the Art of Letting Go, and How to Befriend Your Inner Life
“Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.”
Kierkegaard on Boredom, Why Cat Listicles Fail to Answer the Soul’s Cry, and the Only True Cure for Existential Emptiness
“The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.”
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