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My mind to me a kingdom is (EDWARD DYER)

My mind to me a kingdom is; Such perfect joy therein I find That it excels all other bliss Which God or nature hath assign’d. Though much...

30 October, 2020

The Philosophy of Epicurus

In days of legend, the renowned city of Athens first showed suffering men the use of corn-producing crop, and showed them a new...

29 October, 2020

That the People, deceived by a false show of Advantage, often desire what would be their Ruin; and that large Hopes and brave Promises easily move them. (Machiavelli)

When Veii fell, the commons of Rome took up the notion that it would be to the advantage of their city were half...

28 October, 2020

You may get tired some day, I am not going to get tired. (OSHO)

Remember, creativity has nothing to do with any particular work. Creativity has something to do with the quality of your consciousness. Whatsoever you...

27 October, 2020

Every human unit makes himself the centre of the world, which he views exclusively from that standpoint. (SCHOPENHAUER)

Egoism is, from its nature, limitless. The individual is filled with the unqualified desire of preserving his life, and of keeping it free...

26 October, 2020

The key word is acceptance (MARIO ALONSO PUIG)

Quite often, realizing some things is sufficiently painful for us that we don’t wish to see them. Our brain is much better orientated...

25 October, 2020

In our gradually shrinking world, everyone is in need of all the others (GIORGOS SEFERIS)

Giorgos Seferis’ speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1963 (Translation) I feel at this moment that I am...

24 October, 2020

I have come to know that I was trying to make it perfect and that was the only reason for its not being perfect (OSHO)

Do you know your center? If you don't know it then you will be continuously afraid. Hence, self-consciousness is always afraid, always trembling....

23 October, 2020

Thus the weak can profit when the powerful quarrel amongst themselves.

The hawks and the crows agreed to go hunting together. One day, they found a fox nearly dead of starvation. "We'll eat the upper half...

22 October, 2020

«But there are no tigers around here » (MARIO ALONSO PUIG)

We tend to think that the key to everything is “to do” so as “to have” and later “to be”: carrying out various...

21 October, 2020