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Democritus (460-370 BC) (SIMON CRITCHLEY)

For some, "the prince of philosophers." Yet, Plato never mentions him and there is a rumour that has circulated down the ages that...

20 April, 2022

What is power? (JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI)

Questioner: What is power? Krishnamurti: There is mechanical power, the power produced by the internal combustion engine, by steam, or by electricity. There is...

19 April, 2022

Five interminable, humiliating and painful minutes (ZYGMUNT BAUMAN)

Thomas Leoncini: The first testimonial comes from Michele, who’s now thirty years old: I still have nightmares. I was very shy and solitary....

18 April, 2022

That man missed Buddha continuously for forty years. (OSHO)

Buddha passed through a village many times in his forty years of traveling. One man used to come; he would listen for a...

17 April, 2022

If we learn to reinvent the leg, all that will change (IAN STEWART)

As I walk along Braes Bayou, surrounded by wildlife, I realize that I am also surrounded by math. For instance ...

16 April, 2022

Money is therefore a promise in search of wisdom. (PASCAL BRUCKNER)

Money is one of those things that seem obvious but aren’t. It is truly the commoner of life, as crude as it is...

15 April, 2022

THE FOX AND THE GRAPES (AESOP)

The Fox & the Grapes A Fox one day spied a beautiful bunch of ripe grapes hanging from a vine trained along the branches...

14 April, 2022

Then comes Saturn, at about the age of sixty, a weight as of lead, dull and slow. (ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER)

A man's individual career is not, as Astrology wishes to make out, to be predicted from observation of the planets; but the course...

13 April, 2022

Why do news organizations focus so much on the darkness? (ALAIN DE BOTTON)

Why do news organizations focus so much on the darkness? Why so much grimness and so little hope? Perhaps they think that their...

12 April, 2022

Menippus (flourished third century bc) (SIMON CRITCHLEY)

He was a Phoenician and originally a slave who practised usury, apparently with great success, and became a citizen of Thebes, presumably a...

10 April, 2022