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The special personality of Hypatia and her tragic end

Biography Hypatia of Alexandria was the first woman to make a substantial contribution to the development of mathematics. Hypatia was the daughter of the mathematician...

06 October, 2022

There are four paths that lead to spiritual emancipation

Sri Ramana often said that there are only two means by which we can attain the experience of true self-knowledge, namely self-investigation and...

05 October, 2022

Behavior and reactions of the narcissistic person. (ERICH FROMM)

An ever more dangerous pathological element in narcissism is the emotional reaction to criticism of any narcissistically cathexed position. Normally a person does not...

04 October, 2022

Fear of public opinion (BERTRAND RUSSELL)

Very few people can be happy unless on the whole their way of life and their outlook on the world is approved by...

03 October, 2022

To me it is a great pleasure, when I look on the affairs of human life … (MANDEVILLE)

To me it is a great pleasure, when I look on the affairs of human life, to behold into what various and often...

02 October, 2022

Koalemos: The god of stupidity

In Greek mythology, Koalemos (Ancient Greek: Κοάλεμος) was the god of stupidity, mentioned once by Aristophanes, and being found also in Parallel Lives...

01 October, 2022

This man will die the same way he lived (HONORE DE BALZAC)

“My daughters told you that they were coming, didn’t they, Christophe? Go again to them, and I will give you five francs. Tell them...

30 September, 2022

No one has changed anyone against their will (OSHO)

Kahlil Gibran has written a small story: There was a dog, a great revolutionary one might say, who was always teaching other dogs of...

29 September, 2022

Plato seemed to have little sympathy for the merely personal. We become more worthy the more we bend our minds to the impersonal. (REBECA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN)

This literary ploy of Plato’s makes it difficult to distill out of the dialogues what is historically true of Socrates, the man who...

28 September, 2022

Does time exist? Carlo Rovelli and the quantum response

“This distinction between past and future is not present in the basic grammar of the world. It comes about only because we have...

27 September, 2022