Heracleitus (540-480 BC) (SIMON CRITCHLEY)
Traditionally Heracleitus was known as the "weeping philosopher" or "the obscure." He was, according to Plutarch, afflicted with terrible diseases. All that remains...
29 April, 2022
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Do not require me to be on a level with the best of men, but merely to be better than the worst. (SENECA)
If, therefore, any one of those dogs who yelp at philosophy were to say, as they are wont to do, "Why, then, do...
28 April, 2022
He does not believe in the theatre; he used to laugh at my dreams, so that little by little I became down-hearted and ceased to believe in it too… (ANTON CHEKHOV)
Nina's Monologue (from The Seagull of Anton Chekhov) Why do you say that you have kissed the ground I walked on? You should kill...
27 April, 2022
What is the work of man? (JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI)
Questioner: What is the work of man? Krishnamurti: What do you think it is? Is it to study, pass examinations, get a job and...
26 April, 2022
It is one thing to bring your soul to accept such ideas: it is quite another to combine theory and practice. (MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE)
On Virtue It happens even to us who are mere abortions of men that we can occasionally enrapture our Soul far beyond her ordinary...
25 April, 2022
Immediately prescribe some character and form of conduce to yourself (EPICTETUS)
Immediately prescribe some character and form of conduce to yourself, which you may keep both alone and in company. Be for the most part...
24 April, 2022
You should rather have one talent in your employ than have a thousand ounces of gold in your coffer (CHINGHUA TANG)
The Tang dynasty, one of the longest dynasties in Chinese history (618–907), is hailed by historians as China’s golden age. It didn’t come...
23 April, 2022
I’ll wait for you everywhere (TASOS LIVADITIS)
And if ever the moment comes when they take us apart, my love, don’t lose courage The great human virtue is to hold on to...
22 April, 2022
People go on and on, creating big problems out of nothing (OSHO)
One woman hypochondriac died...
22 April, 2022
The art of comedy achieves deep penetration in social consciousness (ALAIN DE BOTTON).
In his The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious (1905), Freud wrote, ‘A joke will allow us to exploit something ridiculous in...
21 April, 2022
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