On Philosophy
“Africans are notoriously religious” - John Mbiti (1969) African Religions and Philosophy. To contextualize this more: when Mbiti says African peoples had ‘no concept of the future’ he doesn’t mean they couldn’t plan, prepare, or think ahead, rather what he’s saying is the future does not exist as an abstract, infinite horizon. Time is tied to... See more
instagram.comSeneca talked about the need to “linger among a limited number of master thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.”
Ryan Holiday • 20 Books to Help You Live Better in 2020
He even began to snivel. He was sentimental. He was wicked and sentimental.
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
[[Kenneth Bridges]] the disturbance within duality. Unfortunately its possible to be wicked and human aka whole.
Philosophy cannot exist without criticism, and writing makes it possible and convenient to subject
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death
Studying humanities allows you to talk about anything, which is why it's so dangerous.
Intellectualism as a cesspool - maybe that’s a feature, not a bug.
On the importance of reading, responding, and writing to and for one another to advance ideas
All of this makes the grass-is-always-greener syndrome inevitable in our psychological makeup. We should not moralize or complain about this possible flaw in human nature. It is a part of the mental life of each one of us, and it has many benefits. It is the source of our ability to think of new possibilities and innovate.
Robert Greene • The Laws of Human Nature
Perhaps the value of the reference, and our collective heritage-obsessed mindset, is also about our desire to make sense of meanings and changes. To hold onto things and prune them.
Liz Gorny • POV: How valuable is the obscure creative reference?
Twain, in his lecture notes, proposes that "a sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience" and goes on to describe the novel as "a book of mine where a sound heart and a deformed conscience come into collision and conscience suffers defeat".
On Huck, from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.