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Every happiness that a man enjoys rests upon illusion (Schopenhauer)
Every happiness that a man enjoys, and almost every friendship that he cherishes, rest upon illusion; for, as a rule, with increase of knowledge they are bound to vanish. Nevertheless, here as...
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Problems begin the moment we’re born (Hayao Miyazaki)
From The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness. The speaker is Hayao Miyazaki. Tagged: Hayao Miyazaki, philosophy, The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
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Freedom and the Self: Essays on the Philosophy of David Foster Wallace (Book...
Freedom and the Self: Essays on the Philosophy of David Foster Wallace is new from Columbia University Press. Their blurb: The book Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will, published in 2010...
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Ugly/beautiful (Wittgenstein)
From Culture and Value. Tagged: aesthetics, Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosophy, similes
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Struggle (Wittgenstein)
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Child’s crying (Wittgenstein)
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In American Candide, Mahendra Singh reboots Voltaire’s classic satire
About halfway through Mahendra Singh’s American Candide, our omniscientish (yet beguiled) narrator slows down for a moment to offer an internal critique (and useful summary) of the novel thus far: If...
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Flann O’Brien’s Novel The Third Policeman Is a Surreal Comic Masterpiece
Illustration for Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman by Nancy Martinez Here’s the short review: Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman is a dark, comic masterpiece—witty, bizarre, and buzzing with...
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Problems begin the moment we’re born (Hayao Miyazaki)
Happy birthday to Hayao Miyazaki. From The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness.
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