fbpx

Philosophy

CHARON Your fare, you rascal. MENIPPUS Bawl away, Charon, if it gives you any pleasure. CHARON I brought you across: give me my fare. MENIPPUS I can't, if I haven't got it. CHARON And who is so poor that he has not got a penny? MENIPPUS I for one; I don't know who else. CHARON Pay: or, by...

"I cannot live with myself any longer." This was the thought that kept repeating itself in my mind. Then suddenly I became aware of what a peculiar thought it was. `Am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two...

A somewhat similar case is the idea that deceives the mass of mankind, that if they could live in big houses, and get together a quantity of slaves and money, they would have a happy life. But a happy and cheerful life is not from without,...

In Unto This Last (1862), John Ruskin, who had been as concerned with challenging meritocratic ideas, described in sarcastic tones the conclusions he had reached about the characters of rich and poor on the basis of hundreds of encounters with both groups in many countries...

Healing a Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda 5 After this[a] there was a Jewish feast,[b] and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is[c] in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate[d] a pool called Bethzatha[e] in Aramaic,[f] which has five covered walkways.[g] 3 A great...

Once when I had stayed away for several days and returned bewildered she took me aside and said: "You must not give way to desires which you don't believe in. I know what you desire. You should, however, either be capable of renouncing these desires...

Loading new posts...
No more posts

Facebook

Instagram

Follow Me on Instagram