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Simon May’s Followers (20)
Simon May
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El poder de lo cuqui
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Love: A History
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2011
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13 editions
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Atomic Sushi: Notes from the Heart of Japan
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2006
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5 editions
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How To Be A Refugee: One Family’s Story of Exile and Belonging
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Love: A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion
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Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality: A Critical Guide
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2011
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8 editions
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Jump!: A New Philosophy for Conquering Procrastination
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Nietzsche's Ethics and his War on "Morality"
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1999
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5 editions
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Thinking Aloud: A Collection of Aphorisms
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2009
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2 editions
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The Pocket Philosopher: A Handbook of Aphorisms
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1999
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4 editions
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“This is the feeling that I call ‘ontological rootedness’ – ontology being that branch of philosophy that deals with the nature and experience of existence. My suggestion is that we will love only those (very rare) people or things or ideas or disciplines or landscapes that can inspire in us a promise of ontological rootedness. If they can, we will love them regardless of their other qualities: regardless of how beautiful or good they are; of how (in the case of people we love) generous or altruistic or compassionate; of how interested in our life and projects. And regardless, even, of whether they value us. For love's overriding concern is to find a home for our life and being.”
― Love: A History
― Love: A History
“Human love, now even more than then, is widely tasked with achieving what once only divine love was thought capable of: to be our ultimate source of meaning and happiness, and of power over suffering and disappointment.”
― Love: A History
― Love: A History
“By imputing to human love features properly reserved for divine love, such as the unconditional and the eternal, we falsify the nature of this most conditional and time-bound and earthy emotion, and force it to labour under intolerable expectations. This divinisation of human love is the latest chapter in humanity’s impulsive quest to steal the powers of its gods, and the longest-running such attempt to reach beyond our humanity. Like the others it must fail; for the moral of these stories is that the limits of the human can be ignored only at terrible cost.”
― Love: A History
― Love: A History
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