On Philosophy

Meditating, a plan for thoughtfulness, so how do we think upon these things and so you take truth in, but you've got to take that next step then, and ruminate. You’ve gotta go back over and and read again or think in your mind, okay, what does it mean that I must believe this about God, that I might must confess this sin, that I must treat my

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?

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

Interintellect

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Do you believe there is there a God? If so, why? Is there evidence for God? What is the nature of God? How does God interact with the world? With us?
What is truth? Is it knowable? How do we find it? What/who is the source of truth?
What is the status of human nature? Are we mostly good or mostly bad?
Do humans have free will? To what degree do we

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

Seneca 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

Here's a quote from Watts on discipline:

"Now that. In these Asiatic traditions it is well recognized. That people who get the knowledge that you’re it. May very well run amok. And therefore they always couple any method of gaining this, whether it is yoga whether it is smoking something or drinking something or whatever is the method they always... See more

r/AlanWatts - Reddit

Heard mentioned from Lupe Fiasco

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.