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Thalatta! Thalatta!

Thálatta! Thálatta! (Greek: Θάλαττα! θάλαττα! — "The Sea! The Sea!") was the shouting of joy when the roaming Ten Thousand Greeks saw Euxeinos...

25 July, 2023

Bringing Up Parents (JORGE & DEMIAN BUCAY)

Literature (like daily life) is full of stories about people who treat othersintolerably, as if they were their children. Husbands, wives, friends, bosses,neighbors,...

24 July, 2023

A covetous, envious and malicious man. (ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER)

Health outweighs all other blessings so much that one may really say that a healthy beggar is happier than an ailing king. A quiet and...

23 July, 2023

Bertrand Russell – Biography

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell OM FRS[68] (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British polymath, philosopher, logician, mathematician,...

22 July, 2023

I did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice: I ran up to the top of the house to cry by myself (Proust)

When these walks of my grandmother’s took place after dinner there was one thing which never failed to bring her back to the...

16 July, 2023

It is difficult for people to grasp the fact that their condition is miserable

It is difficult for people of the present age not only to understand the cause of their miserable condition, but even to grasp the...

15 July, 2023

“Wise elders” are all around us and these people have much to teach us. (JOHN IZZO)

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by experience, which is the bitterest; and third, by...

14 July, 2023

Competition: when you have to look outside yourself to assess your own position or worth (WAYNE DYER)

You can truly victimize yourself, your spouse and your children, by giving excessive competitiveness top priority in your philosophy or behavior. Schools which...

13 July, 2023

Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments. (HERMAN HESSE)

The Steppenwolf, too, believes that he bears two souls (wolf and man) in his breast and even so finds his breast disagreeably cramped...

12 July, 2023

You may be a cook; but then there will be creativity (OSHO)

You need not go to any school to learn creativity. All that you need is to go withinwards and help the ego dissolve....

11 July, 2023