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The ancient contrast between otium and negotium
Otium (left) and negotium (right), as rendered by Nano Banana on the basis of the writings of Cicero and Seneca.There is a Latin word that has no satisfying translation in English, and precisely for that reason it is worth pausing on it. The word is otium.
It does not mean “idleness” in the sense we usually intend: laziness, inactivity, time wasted on the couch. In Latin, otium denotes somethin
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| Penultimo volume della pentalogia di Antonio Scurati sull'ascesa e caduta del fascismo in Italia. Anche se si tratta di una versione romanzata (e comunque molto ben scritta), è bene notare che la documentazione storica è puntigliosa, con ogni capitol ...more | |
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| I was perplexed about Jainism before reading this book and my perplexity, if anything, has increased a bit. Setting aside the unusual practices for which the religion is known, especially among "renouncers," that is, monks and nuns who made strict vo ...more | |
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| This is a most definitely puzzling novel, and I say this as someone who has read a fair share of Japanese fiction. The story is clearly absurdist, along the kind of disturbing lines one finds in Kafka. Moreover, there is a story-within-the-story that ...more | |
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| Since You're Mortal is an intriguing collection of ancient Greek sayings from a variety of authors, all Athenian poets and playwrights who wrote some of the most insightful ancient plays and tragedies. The book, subtitled "Life lessons from the lost ...more | |
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| How to Find Happiness is a new partial translation of a classic book by Marcus Tullius Cicero: De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (On the Ends of Good and Evil). In it, Cicero sets out to explore and critically evaluate the major philosophies of life of t ...more | |
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| Many of us like to travel, and this predilection has a long, long history. But traveling can be understood and experienced in many different ways, and this selection of classic pieces newly translated by Mark Usher is an excellent sampler. One of the ...more | |
“Better to endure pain in an honorable manner than to seek joy in a shameful one.”
― How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
― How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
“[T]he nature of science is not that of a steady, linear progression toward the Truth, but rather a tortuous road, often characterized by dead ends and U-turns, and yet ultimately inching toward a better, if tentative, understanding of the natural world.”
― Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
― Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
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“We should not be too confident in our belief of anything. (Cicero, Tusculan Disputations I.32)”
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“UWTB, or the Universal Will to Become. UWTB is what makes universes out of nothingness—that makes nothingness insist on becoming somethingness.”
― The Sirens of Titan
― The Sirens of Titan
“I myself don’t know the facts of these matters, but I’ve never met anyone, including the people here today, who could disagree with what I’m saying and still avoid making himself ridiculous.”
― The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook
― The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook
“Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can, and, when I die, to die as well as I can. And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same.”
― The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook
― The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook
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