"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star." - Thus Spoke Zarathustra. I picked up this book– "The Birth of Tragedy" for myself long ago to better understand Nietzsche's "Ãœbermensch". I guess I can start with Nietzsche's very first of his work. It is a book that he wrote before he was …
Ahh… Love. The unsolved mysteries for centuries. Ever since the human being existed, we are revolving around the topic of Love and praise it with drama, poems, music, arts, and movies. It seems we are still in the way of searching the true definition of Love. In the book of Plato's Symposium, there are a …
It took me months to finish the book. Not that I want to rush it. I would like to read the book slowly and ponder the questions deliberately. Reflect on Hayek's ideas, pose questions from my perspective, and apply them to modern society. Search through others' reviews and perspectives on his book and the subject …
"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." - Alfred N Whitehead. Blunt as it sounds, we can boldly assume that most of the philosophical text from the Western world has drawn numerous inspirations and political concepts from Plato's Republic. Thomas Moore's Utopia, George Orwell's 1984, …
The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold the power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away! Unlike the book "Prince" by Niccolo Machiavelli . This is a book that addresses those who sought after power, power to reform, power to change the status quo, …
BIG Brother is watching YOU!!! George Orwell's 1984 is an incredible piece of art that all humanity should require to read in their life. 1984 is a dystopian described by George Orwell which has written in 1949 to warn the future generation people about the dangers of totalitarianism, warns against the collectivism of the government …
“Chinese thought is predominantly human-centered and practice-oriented. China’s greatest minds are not about who and what we are, but rather about how we should live our lives, how we relate to others, how we should organize society and how can we secure the well-being of those who live with us and for whom we are …
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"We are all survival machines for the same kind of replicator–molecules called DNA–but there are many different ways of making a living in the world, and the replicators have built a vast range of machine to exploit them. A monkey is a machine that preserves genes up trees, a fish is a machine that preserves …
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Hoffer lives in one room in a Chinese section of San Francisco. No telephone or television, no easy chair. It only has his own files, a few books, and a folding desk. Retired now as a longshoreman, he walks almost every day through Golden Gate Park about two and a half miles. He sees or …
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"I have not only occasionally made a confession of belief in essays, but once, a little more than ten years ago attempted to set forth my belief in a book. This book is called Siddharta." - Hermann Hesse I've long wanted to read this book. The reason that got me so long to start …
Lone Wong | Things to remind in the journey of life 