Melancholy There is melancholy and then there is a melancholy filled with an awareness and appreciation of the vast complexity and expansiveness of reality.
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Category: Ideas
Truth is Like a Lion
Truth is Like a Lion “The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.” – Augustine Augustine (354-430) gets a bad rap, and for good reason given his obsessively prudish attitudes about sex and religious freedom. He did, however, essentially […]
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Epicurus on Happiness
Epicurus on Happiness “We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.” – Epicurus Epicurus is one of the major philosophers in the Hellenistic period, the three centuries following […]
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You Have No Right To be Bored
Seriously, you have no right to be bored. If you feel bored, the fault is yours. Sorry, but it’s true. Stop whining and start living.
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Teddy Roosevelt on the Senate
Teddy Roosevelt on the Senate When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not guilty.’ – President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. The level of corruption in the U.S. […]
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Eyes Are Useless When the Mind is Blind
Eyes Are Useless When the Mind is Blind – Unknown
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Educate Women
Educate Women If you educate a man, you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate a nation. Half the Sky Movement
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Intelligence
Intelligence is not thinking you know everything without questioning, but questioning everything you think you know. This is not the same as skepticism. It is not questioning that knowledge is possible, it is question whether I have knowledge. As Descartes wrote in his Meditations, what we need to keep in […]
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Our Minds Must Relax
Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after a rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting […]
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