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One of the most refreshing ideas to come out of existentialism (perhaps the only one) is that we are free to interpret and reinterpret the meaning of our lives.
Sam Harris • Free Will
Bill Richards, a preternaturally cheerful man in his seventies, is a bridge between the two eras of psychedelic therapy.
Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
Ken Wilber is the most widely translated academic writer in America, with twenty-five books translated into some thirty foreign languages. Wilber is the originator of an extremely comprehensive philosophy called Integral Theory, which is a sort of theory of everything that unifies the disciplines of cultural studies, anthropology, systems theory, d
... See moreVishen Lakhiani • The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed on Your Own Terms
What I was interested in was not solely Adlerian psychology but rather something that had emerged through the filter of the philosopher, Ichiro Kishimi: It was Kishimi-Adler studies that I was seeking. Grounded in the thought of Socrates and Plato and other ancient Greek philosophers, the Adlerian psychology that Kishimi conveys to us reveals Adler
... See moreIchiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

the Adlerian psychology that Kishimi conveys to us reveals Adler as a thinker, a philosopher, whose work went far beyond the confines of clinical psychology.
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
My teachers in college and graduate school never asked me to read the Stoics, and although I am an avid reader, I saw no need to read them on my own. More generally, I saw no need to ponder a philosophy of life. I instead felt comfortable with what is, for almost everyone, the default philosophy of life: to spend one’s days seeking an interesting m
... See moreWilliam B. Irvine • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
... See moreThe aspect of Scott Buchanan’s life to which this memoir relates began, for me at least, with a college lecture he gave in October of 1944.
The lecture was a flight of high speculative fancy in which he tried to imagine the features of a Republic of Learning joined with a political republic.
If man is a political animal, his virtues compromised and
L’acte de voir est particulièrement important quand il remet en question ce que nous savons et ce à quoi nous nous fions, ce qui ne manque pas de nous déstabiliser. C’est l’acte de voir qui nous permet de nous informer et d’ajuster notre situation. C’est pour cette raison que Nietzsche a déclaré que la valeur d’un homme était déterminée par la dose
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