The Pre-Socratic philosophers were pioneers in Western thought, laying the groundwork for what we now recognize as existentialism. Their inquiries into fundamental questions about existence,…
Friedrich Nietzsche, the philosopher known for his profound and often unsettling insights, once remarked that the poet Friedrich Holderlin had raised consciousness with his poetry…
Simply because it seems interesting. Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the most influential philosophers of the 19th century, was named after King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of…
Human nature and the external world are often seen as separate entities, with the former rooted in consciousness and the latter existing independently of it.…
I am constantly studying and writing and putting together self-made puzzles in my mind. And for what? What is my reason? And here enters existentialism.…
Are you feeling happy? It’s OK if you aren’t. Happiness isn’t something that is a permanent state. I don’t know who might need to hear…
Albert Einstein wrote a lot of engaging material, aside from his scientific theories. But it was the theories he developed that did then, and continues…
The first time I heard this quote I was in middle school, I think. I believe we were reading aloud from these “plays” that we…
I have been kicking around this idea of posting some of the long, long letters I have written to myself over the years. I hesitate…
I established in a recent post that napping is meditating. And now I’m going to tell you that playing phone games is meditating. And at…
