One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship?

London is a huge, stony desert: even boredom feels endless there.

We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going to earn us any praise, that life is not going to pin a medal on us for recognizing and enduring our own vanity or egoism or baldness or our potbelly.

Everything your students need to know about philosophy communicated in a way that appeals to them, as well as inspire many of them to the study of philosophy.

And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions.