Trust” is believing in the other party with conditions. For example, when one borrows money from a bank. It goes without saying that the bank will not lend you money unconditionally. They will ask for some kind of collateral, such as real estate or a guarantor, and give you a loan...
On Tranquillity of Mind This likewise greatly obstructs the tranquillity of the mind, that our desires are immoderate and not suited to our abilities of attainment, which, like sails beyond the proportion of the vessel, help only to overset it; so that, being blown up with...
Except for some rather vague, broad and nebulous guidelines, none of us is ever taught how to live. We are not told the value of life nor what it means to be fully alive. We have no idea of the wonders we can take from...
The truth is, we ought to be wretched, and we are so. The chief source of the serious evils which affect men is man himself: homo homini lupus. Whoever keeps this last fact clearly in view beholds the world as a hell, which surpasses that...
You know the story of a blind beggar and a crippled beggar...
Doubtless the most familiar question in the field of aesthetics is whether aesthetic values such as beauty are ‘real’ – inherent, objective – properties of the things to which they are ascribed. Or are such values, rather, inextricably tied to, or dependent on, the judgments...
WHAT IS LOVE? It is unfortunate that we have to ask this question. In the natural course of things everybody would know what love-is. But I understand that nobody knows - or only very rarely - what love is. Love has become one of the rarest experiences. Yes,...
It was 44 BC. Caesar had come an extraordinary way. He had rebuilt his family’s fortunes and cemented his personal legacy in the arc of one career. He had followed a different path and along the way heralded a new form of Roman leadership. Rather...
Three travelers check into a hotel for the night. The young man at the reception desk charges them $30 for a room with three beds in it. They agree to split the price of the room equally, each of them paying $10. They take the...
You need space; the past is so much inside -- a junkyard of dead things. There is no space for the present to enter. That junkyard goes on dreaming about the future, so half the place is filled with that which is no more and...
