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Epictetus on Love and Loss: The Stoic Strategy for Surviving Heartbreak

about 8 hours ago

“Who is good if he knows not who he is? and who...

Diatoms and the Meaning of Life

about 18 hours ago

In 1703, the world’s most esteemed scientific journal published a surprising letter...

Life Is a Story That Begins in the Middle: Bayo Akomolafe on the Rewilding Power of Obstacles

4 days ago

Whenever there is a will, there are two things: a way and...

The Man Who Thought with His Heart: George Forster and the Birth of Sensitive Science

5 days ago

Every mind, even the greatest, is a product of its time and...

Oliver Sacks on Despair and the Meaning of Life

6 days ago

“The meaning of life… clearly has to do with love — what...

The Meaning of Maturity: Ursula K. Le Guin on What It Really Takes to Grow Up

7 days ago

It is not merely a matter of growing bones and growing responsibilities...

Oliver Sacks on the Necessity of Our Illusions

8 days ago

“We need detachment… as much as we need engagement in our lives…...

What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Selfhood in Literature and Life

8 days ago

“It is the intentions, the capacities for choice rather than the total...

Simone de Beauvoir on How Chance and Choice Converge to Make Us Who We Are

9 days ago

“My life… runs back through time and space to the very beginnings...

How to Live Fully: The Samurai Guide to Dying Every Day

9 days ago

The great paradox of human life is that our mortality is the...

A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings

10 days ago

“Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning.” There...

How to Survive Hopelessness: The Remarkable Story of a Shipwrecked Family

14 days ago

“You can expect good and bad luck, but good or bad judgment...