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How Depression Facilitates Self-Transformation

Posted June 1, 2024

“You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.” Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Amiel’s Journal...

Pursue Pain, Not Pleasure – Why Comfort is Crippling You

Posted May 9, 202400:19:07

In the 1st century AD, the Greek orator and philosopher Dio Chrysostom wrote:  “Luxury makes pains seem even harder, and dulls and weakens one’s...

Are We Enslaved to One Side of the Brain? – The Sickness of Modern Man

Posted April 21, 202400:22:40

“It seems to me that we face very grave crises indeed and that, if we are to survive, we need not just a few new measures, but a complete change of...

Why Democracy Leads to Tyranny

Posted March 30, 202400:17:14

“Remember Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes exhausts and [destroys] itself. . .It is in vain to Say that Democracy is … less proud, less...

Why Solitude Promotes Greatness – The Benefits of Being Alone

Posted March 14, 202400:15:20

“To live alone one must be either a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both…” Nietzsche, Twilight of the...