Terrifying Freedom As a teen I was very impressed by a weird book titled Kosminen Viisaus (Cosmic Wisdom) by a Finnish movie director Taavi Kassila. That one, and the Bible (regular and LaVey's), along with Esa Saarinen's best-of compilations of western philosophers, and many more alike, sent me on a journey, still ongoing. After this [...]
Tag: Philosophy
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
Human condition is inherently tragic No rose without a thorn. But many a thorn without a rose. Arthur Schopenhauer is the gloomiest of them all, and yet at the very same time, the most consoling. If a reader accepts his offering, it should calibrate their expectations for life to a manageable level, and this may [...]
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