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Our response to it bears directly and pervasively upon how we conduct ourselves—or, at least, upon how we propose to do so. Perhaps even more significantly, it affects how we experience our lives. When we seek to understand the world of nature, we do so at least partly in the hope that this will enable us to live within it more comfortably. To the
... See moreHarry G. Frankfurt • The Reasons of Love
For me, getting an accurate picture of reality ultimately comes down to two things: being able to synthesize accurately and knowing how to navigate levels.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
enduring (epistemic) curiosity;
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
contemporary life presents us with so many possibilities of fulfillment that no one could pursue them all with enough consistency and commitment to achieve the value that all these sources have to offer.
Mitchell S. Green • Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge
Perhaps there are no ultimate answers in philosophy, perhaps there never will be, but there are no ultimate answers in music, in art, in a beautiful landscape, or in a conversation with a friend, and yet, I know of no one who does not find value, insight, love, and solace in all of these things.
Robert Pantano • The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence: Ideas from Philosophy That Change the Way You Think
whether belief in God is rational.
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
Harvard philosopher Josiah Royce in 1908 wrote The Philosophy of Loyalty, in which he sought to answer the question of why human beings needed meaning. Why wasn’t it enough to simply work, eat, sleep, and do the normal activities of daily life? His answer was that human beings could not live without dedication to a cause more important than their i
... See moreTimothy Keller • Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World
whether there is a God or not, for truly rationally reflective persons—persons, that is, who allow themselves neither to lapse into brutish indifference to everything other than practical concerns nor to fall under the sway of some inflexible materialist ideology—the question of God never ceases to pose itself anew, and the longing to know about Go
... See moreDavid Bentley Hart • The Experience of God
What I envy about myself at seventeen is not that I had all this ahead of me, but the time before I had to choose, before I knew what my losses would be. In philosophers’ terms, the shift in perspective is not temporal, but “epistemic”: it has to do with knowledge. Emotionally, there is a fundamental difference between knowing that I will miss out
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