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The opposite of offense being not more offense, but laughter (LOU MARINOFF)

Whether or not they are frequent or intense enough to be harmful, the world is full of provocations. The only part of this scenario you...

31 May, 2021

Intellectual Yet Idiot (IYI) (NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB)

The IYI subscribes to The New Yorker, a journal designed so philistines can learn to fake a conversation about evolution, neurosomething, cognitive biases, and...

30 May, 2021

The mania for all things shiny and new (ROLF DOBELLI)

How will the world look in fifty years? What will your everyday life be like? With which items will you surround yourself? People...

29 May, 2021

The joy is always within you (OSHO)

Whenever there is joy, you feel that it is coming from without. You have met a friend: of course, it appears that the...

28 May, 2021

The power of learning (TERENCE H. WHITE)

"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That is the only thing that...

27 May, 2021

In great flattery, great attention (IVAN KRYLOV)

A lion was chasing a chamois along a valley. He had all but caught it, and with longing eyes was anticipating a certain and...

26 May, 2021

Chilon (DIOGENES LAERTIUS)

Chilon, son of Damagetas, was a Lacedaemonian. He wrote a poem in elegiac metre some 200 lines in length; and he declared that...

25 May, 2021

For it is hard to speak properly upon a subject where it is even difficult to convince your hearers that you are speaking the truth (THUCYDIDES)

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24 May, 2021

And their misunderstanding about love creates jealousy (OSHO)

Sex creates jealousy but it is a secondary thing. So it is not a question of how to drop jealousy; you cannot drop it...

23 May, 2021

From Monday to Monday (ERICH FROMM)

Contemporary society preaches this ideal of unindividualized equality because it needs human atoms, each one the same, to make them function in a...

22 May, 2021