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When you are happy everybody becomes the enemy (OSHO)

You cling to misery because it has some investment somewhere, it works. Now once you know it works, ’it always gets the old...

26 December, 2021

The ends and means are a seamless web. [GLORIA STEINEM (LOU MARINOFF)]

TELEOLOGY. This also comes from a Greek word, telos, meaning “purpose” or “end.” Teleology (or consequentialism, as it is often called) asserts that no act is right or wrong in and of itself, but...

24 December, 2021

Modern Philosophers on Human Nature

The Reformation: Where Lies the Authority for Faith? – Christianity dominated the social, political, and religious life of Europe for more than a...

23 December, 2021

Math prove that the world is more wonderful than imagination…. (IAN STEWART)

And now the most important; you asked me whether you would have to give up your sense of beauty to study mathematics, whether...

22 December, 2021

“One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam engine has character.” (MICHAEL J. SANDEL)

A generation after Bentham, John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) tried to save utilitarianism by recasting it as a more humane, less calculating doctrine. Mill...

21 December, 2021

The Road Not Taken  (ROBERT FROST)

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as...

20 December, 2021

Expect Ungrateful (ROBIN SHARMA)

Please don't judge me as cynical. But I've mentally conditioned myself to expect ungrateful. Here's what I mean. In Norman Vincent Peale's positive thinking classic...

19 December, 2021

Eldorado (Eldorado. 1849) [EDGAR ALLAN POE]

Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old— This knight so bold— And o’er his...

18 December, 2021

If I can stop one heart from breaking (EMILY DICKINSON)

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or...

17 December, 2021

I’m not happy. (OSHO)

Happiness is the function of your consciousness when it is awake. Unhappiness is the function of your consciousness when it is asleep. Unconsciousness...

15 December, 2021