Nowadays, most people don’t attach a larger significance to beauty. At most, beauty is a quality that evokes pleasure…
Friedrich Nietzsche claimed his doctrine of eternal return was his most important idea, the “greatest elevation of the consciousness…
The trope of the “tortured poet” is intriguing—it conveys the idea that meaningful art requires or is enhanced by anguish, torment…
I read a poem by Mary Oliver that stuck with me. It’s called “White Flowers” and it’s about the boundaries between wakefulness…
“Square in your ship’s path are Sirens, crying beauty to bewitch men coasting by; woe to the innocent who hears that sound!”
Victor Frankl’s book Man’s Search for Meaning explores how humans are driven to find purpose in life. He identifies three potential…
Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973) was a Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician who was especially known for his love poems…
Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880) was a French novelist who played a pivotal role in establishing fiction as a serious, respected genre. At the time, poetry was the predominant…
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860) was an influential German philosopher who, despite providing the foundation for much of modern philosophy, died in relative obscurity.