As I have been heavily involved with the subject of philosophy myself for a number of years now, I have noticed that a broad section of philosophers do not necessarily express themselves in a way that can be clearly explained. Why this is so, we will look at in this article in an attempt to explain. There are three different reasons for thinking that...
A spiritual leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate is often expected to be quiet and to speak very little and very thoughtfully. And that is exactly how it is with the current Dalai Lama. But this is not a coincidence, but based on his own conviction: always listen well. Thus, the following quote is not surprising: "When you speak,...
I have known the saying "take what you need" for years. However, only recently I noticed that it can be interpreted in more than one way. Since you usually prefer what you've known for a while, I'll start with the meaning first, like...
Since the amount of philosophers our planet has produced is almost endless, it is hard to generalize whether the average philosopher was smarter than the average non-philosopher. Many of the philosophers who have ever lived have never been heard of. Since only those with truly groundbreaking ideas, were widely published, we take...
I regularly come across works by poets and philosophers about how dedication to a cause is crucial to whether or not one will achieve goals. In some works the message is easy to understand, in others it is more hidden and only becomes apparent upon closer examination. Henry Charles Bukowski was a German-American writer,...
Many philosophers have grappled with the question of who or what we actually are as human beings. By this, very few mean whether we are hairless descendants of apes or the creation of a god, but what makes us human. Alan Watts has presented his views in various lectures. This article is about how...
In a letter to a friend, Seneca wrote that death is not an event somewhere in the future. Rather, one should see death in the now, in the permanent progression of time. One could also say that every moment that passes dies in that very moment. "The last hour in which we cease to exist brings....
To learn something new in life - be it playing an instrument, a new sport, or anything else - you have to be willing to be a fool. In hardly any case, you're good at something you've never done before. If you're not willing to be bad at something to begin with,...
Often when we are faced with a task that we are afraid of, or that seems unsolvable, we chicken out. The problem, however, is that we can't outgrow ourselves unless we set ourselves tasks that exceed our current competencies. As mentioned in my post, "A Journey of a Thousand Miles..."...
I encourage all of us, regardless of our beliefs, to question the basic narratives of our world, to connect past developments to current problems, and not to be afraid of controversial issues. ' Dr. Yuval Noah Harari Dr. Yuval Noah Harari is a professor of history, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The quote that appears in this post...
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