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Information is what our world runs on (JAMES GLEICK)

Information is what our world runs on: the blood and the fuel, the vital principle. It pervades the sciences from top to bottom,...

15 December, 2019

Alcibiades had all the gifts, all the means… (JACQUELINE DE ROMILLY) | Part C’

Socrates’s Friendship The friendship between the young man and the philosopher is seen best in the dialogue that opened this chapter, Plato’s Symposium. But...

08 December, 2019

Alcibiades had all the gifts, all the means… (JACQUELINE DE ROMILLY) | Part B’

Wealth Actually—and do not think this is unimportant—we are talking about wealth on both sides. On the paternal side, we note that Cleinias provided,...

07 December, 2019

Alcibiades had all the gifts, all the means… (JACQUELINE DE ROMILLY) | Part A’

Alcibiades needs no introduction: Plato has already provided that, on one unforgettable page. In the Symposium, he imagines a meeting of famous men...

06 December, 2019

The Miser

A MISER sold all that he had and bought a lump of gold, which he buried in a hole in the ground by the...

04 December, 2019

There are two types of prisoners. (OSHO)

Persons like me have always been misunderstood. A Lao Tzu, a Zarathustra, an Epicurus, have always been misunderstood. The most religious people were...

01 December, 2019

The End of an Illusion. (ERICH FROMM)

The Great Promise of Unlimited Progress—the promise of domination of nature, of material abundance, of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, and...

23 November, 2019

The wife says, “Darling”, but behind the word darling are dresses; she is thinking about them (OSHO)

One should not act or speak as if he were asleep. This is the only key. The waking have one world in common; sleepers have...

19 November, 2019

If you are uncertain of your own values, you can’t very well teach your child anything definitive. (VIRGINIA SATIR)

The touch of a human hand, the sound of a human voice, and the smells in the home are the experiences by which...

16 November, 2019

The body is very limited; it has a simple polarity: food and sex (OSHO)

You ask me,  "What do I want?" I should ask you rather than you asking me, because it depends where you are. If...

15 November, 2019