One important move in Greek philosophy to answer the question of how to achieve happiness is to bring in another important concept in ancient philosophy, ‘arete’ (virtue). The philosopher Aristotle, for example, wrote that the good or happy life is one of “virtuous activity in accordance wi...
In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.——Rose kennedy •【罗丝·肯尼迪(肯尼迪总统的母亲):人们都说时间可以治愈一切伤口,我可不这么认为。伤口是一直存在着的。随着时间的流逝,出于保护,伤口被覆盖上疤痕,疼痛随之减轻,...
which is associated with one of the sharpest and most intense of all bodily pains. On the last day of his life, he penned this remarkable letter to his friend and follower Idomeneus, which is nothing if not a testament to the overriding powers of philosophy. ...
we get a fairly good and accurate account of the essential teachings of the Buddha according to the original texts. 便不难根据原典,对佛教的要义, 作一个相当完善而正确的阐释。 The Four noble Truths are: 1. Dukkha 2. Samudaya, the arisingor origin of dukkha 3. Nirodha, the cessation of ...
hadn’t gotten into philosophy in order to become a scholar of philosophy, however wonderful and ...
If he were told that he could go free on condition of abandoning philosophical inquiry, he would reply, ‘Men of Athens, I honour and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy’....
“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.” –Jeremy Bentham “Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller [that] there is. LOVE.” ...
But in the letter form, where the participants are not chosen and the subjects treated do not depend on any design or predetermined plan, the author allows himself the advantage of adding philosophy, politics, and ethics to the novel, and of linking it all together by a secret and, in a...
The Roman poet Horace first defined the debt owed by the young men of each generation to their rulers—Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. But the samurai philosophy went a giant step beyond defining military service as fitting and proper. So harsh was its code that its most notable ...
the spirit of Perverseness. Of this spirit philosophy takes no account. Phrenology finds no place for it among its organs. Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the pri...