Now Greif does not grieve as much as I about the warning sign he nailed onto the hedonist storeroom of memories that live rent-free in my mind. He insists this habit of happiness-by-experience results in “a life of permanent dissatisfaction and a compulsion to frenetic activity.”
Tag Archives: Philosophy
Pythagoras and Hepatia
Pythagoras vs. beans and Hepatia vs oyster shells.
All of Life is Practice
All of life is practice.
Optimism is a political act.
Perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better.
Once you strip away the platitudes, a life of passion and purpose will always cost, as T.S. Eliot reminds us, ‘Not less than everything.’”
Alan watts on the length of life
A long life spent in a miserable way.
3 Minutes with Michel de Montaigne
It’s within your capacity to ask yourself what you think and what you know.
A Quick and Dirty Snapshot of Marcel Proust
Writer, poseur, mama’s boy, and tips on how to woo him.