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A man can only remain weak, and abject, and miserable by refusing to lift up his thoughts.(JAMES ALLEN)

ALL that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. In a justly...

21 June, 2021

You might have endured unbearable hardship in your life. the pain of loss, illness, or lack. But please don’t let those thoughts convince you that you’re supposed to suffer, that you don’t deserve to be happy… (MO GAWDAT)

Most of the everyday discomforts of adult life are not only transient but also useful. The pangs of hunger prompt you to eat....

20 June, 2021

Baruch Spinoza: the fundamental questions (ROGER SCRUTON)

Spinoza wrote in Latin, adopting medieval and Cartesian technicalities, and forging his own style, which was sparse and unadorned, yet solemn and imposing....

19 June, 2021

The boundaries of the ego and the difference between the erotic feeling and the true love

The misconception that falling in love is a type of love is so potent precisely because it contains a grain of truth. The experience...

18 June, 2021

CLASSICAL GREEK LOVE: EROS, PHILOS, AND AGAPE (LOU MARINOFF)

The ancient Greeks, whose developments and discoveries in mathematics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, and many other subjects continue to exert primary influence on Western...

17 June, 2021

But you have invested much in your mask. (OSHO)

Changing outside things is not going to help. It is just like arranging the furniture in your room again and again. Whatsoever you...

16 June, 2021

The Devoted Friend (OSCAR WILDE)

Little Hans had a great many friends, but the most devoted friend of all was big Hugh the Miller. Indeed, so devoted was...

15 June, 2021

THE BATTLE AT PHARSALIA (PLUTARCH)

When the two armies Julius Caesar's and Pompey's) were come into Pharsalia, and both encamped there, Pompey's thoughts ran the same way as...

14 June, 2021

Sextus Empiricus and the Infinite Regress of Justification (SORENSEN ROY)

We know almost nothing—about Sextus Empiricus. We do not know when this codifier of Greek skepticism was born or when he died. We...

13 June, 2021

A man shows his character by the way he deals with unimportant things (ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER)

In any case it is well to take care not to form a highly lavorable opinion of a person whose acquaintance you have...

12 June, 2021