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I have no other definition of success than leading an honorable life (NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB)

Risk taking (a certain class of risks) as a separation between man and machine and (some may hate it) a ranking of humans. If...

19 March, 2021

Eros and Ananke have become the parents of human civilization (S.Freud) | Part B’

The love which founded the family continues to operate in civilization both in its original form, in which it does not renounce direct...

18 March, 2021

Eros and Ananke have become the parents of human civilization (S.Freud)| Part A’

Sublimation of instinct is an especially conspicuous feature of cultural development; it is what makes it possible for higher psychical activities, scientific, artistic...

17 March, 2021

Plutarch guides us, Seneca pushes us on. (Michel de Montaigne)

As to what concerns my other reading, that mixes a little more profit with the pleasure, and whence I learn how to marshal...

16 March, 2021

Biophilia means love of life (ERICH FROMM)

The opposite of the necrophilous orientation is the biophilous; its essence is love of life in contrast to love of death. Like necrophilia,...

15 March, 2021

And what is the difference between us? (SENECA)

"What then," you say, "is the difference between you, the wise man, and me, the fool, if we both wish to have riches?"...

14 March, 2021

Begin each day (MARCUS AURELIUS)

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them...

13 March, 2021

The Ass and the Gardener (AESOP)

An ass, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little food and too much work made a petition to Jupiter to be...

12 March, 2021

Inner disharmony and disease (OSHO)

What is meant by health? This we must try to understand. Ordinarily, if we ask a physician what the definition of health is,...

11 March, 2021

Antaeus Whacked (NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB)

Antaeus was a giant, or rather a semi-giant of sorts, the literal son of Mother Earth, Gaea, and Poseidon, the god of the sea....

10 March, 2021