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c’est « un homme » qui s’y exprime, comme disait Pascal, et pas seulement « un auteur » ! Cette philosophie à la première personne, que j’ai appelée l’ego-philosophie, reste fidèle à la tradition socratique. Il s’agit de « se connaître soi-même, explique Pascal : quand cela ne servirait pas à trouver le vrai, cela au moins sert à régler sa vie, et
... See moreAndré Comte-Sponville • Le Goût de vivre: et cent autres propos (French Edition)
Eric Dodson • The Charm of Philosophical Psychology
A friend who is curious about the way the mind works for happiness or unhappiness spent an afternoon with a Hindu teacher. During their conversation, he asked the teacher, somewhat rhetorically, “Don’t you know for sure at least that you are a human being?” The teacher replied, “In part.” This was not the response my friend expected. His train of t
... See moreJohn Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
Because of the objective uncertainty, faith is a necessary condition of experience. Neither the past nor the future can be known and have to be taken on faith. This temporal condition—what I call the necessary uncertainty of secular faith—binds faith to risk from the beginning. Given that your relation to the past and the future depends on faith, y
... See moreMartin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
“The shape of our knowledge becomes the shape of our living; the relation of the knower to the known becomes the relation of the living self to the larger world.” Palmer is saying that the way we attend to others determines the kind of person we become. If we see people generously, we will become generous, or if we view them coldly, we will become
... See moreDavid Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
C’est une idée singulière, mais ce que vise Sartre, c’est la structure de l’intentionnalité husserlienne, où la conscience n’est qu’un « à-propos-de » sans substance. Ma conscience est spécifiquement mienne, mais elle n’a pas d’être réel : elle n’est que sa tendance à aller vers les choses. Si je m’examine et semble voir une masse de qualités solid
... See moreAude de Saint-Loup • Au café existentialiste : La liberté l être & le cocktail à l abricot (French Edition)
From George Saunders, on nuance and embracing complexity:
... See morethe writer doesn't have to have a fixed firm idea, but has to be able to take the reader on a journey to remind her that the world is complicated. From the very beginning, I understood writing to be about some kind of moral or ethical imperative. Absent that, I'm not that interested in it, ac