Bundle Who actually said that Famous lines traced back to whoever really said them.
Finds
- Transformative Experience L.A. Paul's vampire problem: you can't know what it's like until you've changed
- George Kubler's The Shape of Time Defining the present as the dark between the lighthouse's flashes
- Fernando Pessoa on Being Tourists of Ourselves On the difference between visiting yourself and exploring yourself.
- Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers Two thousand years of ideas, one concept at a time, in 300 words
- The Mind's I Twenty-seven essays and stories on the self, each one argued with by its editors
- Michel Foucault's Lectures Decades of Foucault's own recorded lectures, gathered in one place
- The Nature of the Physical World Arthur Eddington's 1928 lectures on why the solid table under your hand is mostly empty space
- The Syntopicon Mortimer Adler's hand-built index to the Great Ideas
- Alfred Korzybski on believing vs. doubting Both save us from actually thinking
- Bayo Akomolafe on Obstacles as Creative Hubs On obstacles as the universe's hubs of creativity.
- George Forster on Reason and Feeling On the danger of worshipping cold reason at the expense of feeling.
- Marguerite Yourcenar on Madness and Destiny On the touch of madness required to build a destiny.
- Tolstoy's Guide to Daily Wisdom Tolstoy's last project — a year of daily readings from world philosophy
- Camus: "My revolt, my freedom, and my passion" Camus's three consequences of accepting absurdity — not despair but revolt, freedom, and passion. Surfaced in a Maria Popova essay on a 1945 interview.
- Kundera: "We can never know what to want" Milan Kundera on the structural irreversibility of life decisions — surfaced in a Maria Popova essay on ambivalence.
- Gary Snyder — "The cage they were tricked into entering" From Earth House Hold (1969), via The Marginalian
- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind Shunryū Suzuki's 1970 Zen primer, still the recommended one
- Martha Nussbaum on Human Fragility On openness as a precondition for being good
- Pythagoras on the Philosopher at the Olympics Where the word 'philosopher' actually came from
- Simone de Beauvoir on Marriage and the Freedom to Change Beauvoir on why a marriage isn't a single decision but a daily one — and why that's its strength, not its problem.
- Hannah Arendt — Men in Dark Times On the strange humanity available to outsiders
- Stendhal — "God's only excuse is that he doesn't exist" Quote Investigator nails the 175-year provenance