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Lioness and animals (AESOP)

A controversy prevailed among the beasts of the field as to which of the animals deserved the most credit for producing the greatest...

10 March, 2022

How often has this work diverted me from troublesome thoughts? and all that are frivolous should be reputed so… (MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE)

And though nobody should read me, have I wasted time in entertaining myself so many idle hours in so pleasing and useful thoughts?...

09 March, 2022

From the head to the heart…from the heart to being… (OSHO)

Society does not want you to be a man of heart. Society needs heads, not hearts. I was visiting India's greatest university, in Varanasi,...

08 March, 2022

The calculating shopkeeper … [IMMANUEL KANT (MICHAEL J. SANDEL)] | Part B’

The moral misanthrope Perhaps the hardest case for Kant’s view involves what he takes to be the duty to help others. Some people are...

07 March, 2022

The calculating shopkeeper … [IMMANUEL KANT (MICHAEL J. SANDEL)] | Part Α’

What matters is the motive What’s Moral? Look for the Motive According to Kant, the moral worth of an action consists not in the consequences...

06 March, 2022

What does “random” really mean anyway? (JIM AL-KHALILI)

Let us take a more careful look at the Second Law and the issue of order and disorder, for we have yet to...

05 March, 2022

The active years of life are in most cases gone; a man has no more expectations or plans or intentions… (ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER)

As the years increase, it always becomes easier to say. Dare to be wise — sapere aude. And after sixty, the inclination to...

04 March, 2022

Favor is like friendship but it is not (ARISTOTLE)

Favour seems to be friendship, but is not the same as friendship; for favour occurs both towards strangers and without their knowing it,...

03 March, 2022

The Wisdom of Goethe (JOHANN PETER ECKERMANN)

When we are children, we are sensualists; idealists when we love, and attribute to the beloved object qualities which she does not naturally...

02 March, 2022

Can people perceive how others experience the world from their own perspective? (IRVIN D. YALOM)

I awake from my dream at 3 a.m., weeping into my pillow. Moving quietly, so as not to disturb Marilyn, I slip out of...

01 March, 2022