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“subjective experience is explainable, and its successful explanation is of ethical relevance because it makes us wiser, freer, and happier. Not only does this conviction guide Spinoza’s major philosophical decisions, it also explains the lasting appeal of his chief work,”
Ursula Renz, The Explainability of Experience: Realism and Subjectivity in Spinoza's Theory of the Human Mind

“the American physician George M. Beard introduced the term ‘neurasthenia’ to the medical lexicon, referring to feelings of profound nervous exhaustion and anxiety that were becoming an epidemic in the industrialized cities of Germany, England, and the United States.”
Kevin Aho, Existentialism: An Introduction

“In an effort to minimize evaporation, Central Asians came to dig these channels deeper and deeper and thus reduce the area exposed to the sun. They also lined them to prevent loss through seepage—both of these being techniques that modern Soviet engineers ignored, with disastrous consequences.”
S. Frederick Starr, Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane

Feng Youlan
“For my part, what I call philosophy is systematic, reflective thinking on life.”
Feng Youlan, A Short History of Chinese Philosophy

Lao Tzu
“Among other things, this chapter represents a valiant although self-consciously inadequate attempt to do what Wittgenstein says cannot be done. According to Wittgenstein, one cannot predicate the whole. That is, one cannot say that the totality of things is either large or small if there is nothing beyond it with which to compare.”
Lao Tzu, Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation

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