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Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Mary Shelley
I dwell in Possibility—
Emily Dickinson
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
The Quoteiac Journal
The Best Gifts for Philosophy Lovers (That Aren't Another Book)
They’ve read the books. They’ve argued the positions. Here’s what you actually give the person who takes ideas seriously — and won’t be impressed by anything generic.
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Helen Frankenthaler Was Right in 1952. The Art World Took Another Decade.
In the fall of 1952, a twenty-three-year-old painter named Helen Frankenthaler spread an unprimed canvas flat on the floor of her New York studio and poured thinned paint directly onto it. The pain...
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From Camus to Kafka: Quotes for the Modern Absurdist
Absurdism isn’t nihilism. It’s what happens when you take the contradiction between what humans need and what the world offers completely seriously — and then keep going anyway. Eight quotes that a...
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