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How could such an activity fit in with what other people knew of her? Could anyone accept the whole of her?
The School of Life • How To Think More About Sex (School of Life)
Les grands auteurs sont des êtres humains comme les autres. On peut les prendre sans crainte pour compagnons et leur causer librement, ainsi que Montaigne le faisait avec les penseurs de l’Antiquité.
Gaspard Koenig • Notre vagabonde liberté: À cheval sur les traces de Montaigne (French Edition)
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Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
When you come to one of the many moments in life where you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more but rests, satisf
... See morePaul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
The mortality of the soul2. The ultimate nothingness of death3. The argument of symmetry
Irvin D. Yalom • Staring at the Sun
How can a man be a philosopher and not maintain his vital heat by better methods than other men?
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
In a reversal of Descartes’ ‘I think, therefore I am,’ Sartre argues, in effect, ‘I am nothing, therefore I am free.’