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Milton Glaser on Art, Technology, and the Secret of Life
Milton Glaser on Art, Technology, and the Secret of Life

“You learn more and more that everything exists at once with its opposite, so the contradictions of life are never-ending and somehow the mediation between these opposites is the game of life.”

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The Science and Philosophy of Friendship: Lessons from Aristotle on the Art of Connection
The Science and Philosophy of Friendship: Lessons from Aristotle on the Art of Connection

“Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.”

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Leo Tolstoy on Emotional Infectiousness and What Separates Good Art from the Bad
Leo Tolstoy on Emotional Infectiousness and What Separates Good Art from the Bad

“A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist.”

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Henry Hikes to Fitchburg: Lovely Illustrated Children’s Adaptation of Thoreau’s Philosophy, Full of Universal Wisdom for All
Henry Hikes to Fitchburg: Lovely Illustrated Children’s Adaptation of Thoreau’s Philosophy, Full of Universal Wisdom for All

An existential walk into what money can and can’t buy.

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The Art of Thought: A Pioneering 1926 Model of the Four Stages of Creativity
The Art of Thought: A Pioneering 1926 Model of the Four Stages of Creativity

How to master the beautiful osmosis of conscious and unconscious, voluntary and involuntary, deliberate and serendipitous.

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Make Art, Make Money, and Believe the Beard: What Jim Henson Teaches Us about Bridging Creative Integrity and Commercial Success
Make Art, Make Money, and Believe the Beard: What Jim Henson Teaches Us about Bridging Creative Integrity and Commercial Success

“What is a human being? Complex to the point of absurdity, a whole person is both greedy and generous.”

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Henry Builds a Cabin: Thoreau’s Joyfully Minimalist Life at Walden, Illustrated for Kids and Full of Wisdom for All
Henry Builds a Cabin: Thoreau’s Joyfully Minimalist Life at Walden, Illustrated for Kids and Full of Wisdom for All

“Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think they must have such a one as their neighbors have.”

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How to Build a Universe: Philip K. Dick on Reality, Media Manipulation, and Human Heroism
How to Build a Universe: Philip K. Dick on Reality, Media Manipulation, and Human Heroism

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

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John Locke on Knowledge, Understanding, and Why Not to Borrow Your Opinions from Others
John Locke on Knowledge, Understanding, and Why Not to Borrow Your Opinions from Others

“The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires an art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own object.”

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Oscar Wilde on Art and Cultivating the Crucial Temperament of Receptivity
Oscar Wilde on Art and Cultivating the Crucial Temperament of Receptivity

“The temperament to which Art appeals … is the temperament of receptivity.”

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