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Politics, Friendship, and the Search for Meaning
Friendship is a bulwark against stasis, a potential source of creativity and renewal.Practically everyone who studies friendship says this in some form or another: What makes friendship so fragile is also exactly what makes it so special. You have to continually opt in. That you choose it is what gives it its value.
Jennifer Senior • It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart
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Paradoxically, it is friendship that often offers us the real route to the pleasures that Romanticism associates with love. That this sounds surprising is only a reflection of how underdeveloped our day-to-day vision of friendship has become. We associate it with a casual acquaintance we see only once in a while to exchange inconsequential and shal
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
It may seem counter-intuitive to say that, in the face of the profound challenges our society faces, what we most need is the deliberate cultivation of friendship. But I also find myself thinking that this conclusion is, from one angle, inescapable. At the very least, it seems to me that we need such friendships as an anchor and a refuge from the d... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Answer Is Not More Information
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Les épicuriens ont souligné l’importance de l’amitié, mais, selon leur conception, l’amitié est déconnectée de la vie politique, c’est une amitié privée. Pour Aristote, l’amitié, dans sa forme la plus élevée, a une dimension politique ou civique. Nous aimons nos amis non pas parce que nous les apprécions, mais parce que nous partageons les mêmes…
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Jules Evans • La philo, c'est la vie ! (Poche) (French Edition)
The dynamic of friendship is almost always underestimated as a constant force in human life. A diminishing circle of friends is the first terrible diagnostic of a life in deep trouble: of overwork, of too much emphasis on a professional identity, of forgetting who will be there when our armoured personalities run into the inevitable natural disaste
... See moreRoger's Bacon • Friendship Forever
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Poet David Whyte on friendship:
“The dynamic of friendship is almost always underestimated as a constant force in human life: a diminishing circle of friends is the first terrible diagnostic of a life in deep trouble: of overwork, of too much emphasis on a professional identity, of forgetting who will be there when our armored personalities run into... See more
“The dynamic of friendship is almost always underestimated as a constant force in human life: a diminishing circle of friends is the first terrible diagnostic of a life in deep trouble: of overwork, of too much emphasis on a professional identity, of forgetting who will be there when our armored personalities run into... See more
James Clear • 3-2-1: On the bottleneck to achieving results, the discomfort of growth, and friendship
Isaac Feldman and added
An intimate friendship, whether it be from the companionate love of your spouse or an Aristotelian “perfect friend,” is better than any professional success. It will salve the wounds of professional decline like nothing else.