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ARISTOTLES (384-322BC), Greek philosopher
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting 2 bodies. Soul mate implies: Complete friendship.
Instead of “friendships for utility”, nor
“Friendships solely for pleasure” !
It’s a good feeling & idea to find a relationship in which you just naturally want to be good to eachother. A relationship in which you can do good to the ither aimply by being yourself.
— Sep 12, 2026 03:16PM
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting 2 bodies. Soul mate implies: Complete friendship.
Instead of “friendships for utility”, nor
“Friendships solely for pleasure” !
It’s a good feeling & idea to find a relationship in which you just naturally want to be good to eachother. A relationship in which you can do good to the ither aimply by being yourself.
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On the other hand, each little life is a small cosmos on itself, a litlle world.
That little worls is our oyster. Where our small acts of kindneas do make a difference.
— Sep 12, 2026 10:30PM
That little worls is our oyster. Where our small acts of kindneas do make a difference.
Mimi
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The ripple effect: every little thing we do, has repercussions that can reach far.
“The wonderful life theory”: a social-behaviour variation on the Butterfly Effect. I.e. the flap of a butterfly’s wings in one part of the globe can be the determinjng cause of a hurricane in the other side of the globe. A small event can generate big changes.
— Sep 12, 2026 10:28PM
“The wonderful life theory”: a social-behaviour variation on the Butterfly Effect. I.e. the flap of a butterfly’s wings in one part of the globe can be the determinjng cause of a hurricane in the other side of the globe. A small event can generate big changes.
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DAVID HUME (1711-1776) - British empiricist, philosopher
The Life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
It implies that our individual lives are so puny against the backdrop of the huge cosmos, as to be utterly meaningless. Not worth more than the oyster.
But perhaps, there is another way of looking at it.
— Sep 12, 2026 10:19PM
The Life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
It implies that our individual lives are so puny against the backdrop of the huge cosmos, as to be utterly meaningless. Not worth more than the oyster.
But perhaps, there is another way of looking at it.
Mimi
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PAUL TILLICH (1886-1965) , Theologian
Our language has wisely sensed the 2 sides of being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it haa created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.
Albert Einstein: I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
— Sep 12, 2026 03:00PM
Our language has wisely sensed the 2 sides of being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it haa created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.
Albert Einstein: I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Mimi
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It is better being a human being dissatisfied, than a happy pig satisfied. Thinking is a pre-requisite for a gratifying life. The unexamined life is not worth living (Socrates). Phylosophical thinking is life enriching; the big confronting questions enlarge our universum.
Philosophy = the residue of unanswerable questions.
Philosophy keeps alive our sense of wonder by showing familiar things in an unfamiliar aspect.
— Sep 09, 2026 08:01PM
Philosophy = the residue of unanswerable questions.
Philosophy keeps alive our sense of wonder by showing familiar things in an unfamiliar aspect.
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BERTRAND RUSSELL (1872-1970)
British philosopher, humanist & logician
“ The goods of the mind re at least as important as the goods of the body”
“Thinking” supplies us with one of life’s greatest pleasures. I think, therefore I feel good = Cerebral hedonism.
Thinking is a delight in itself !
— Sep 09, 2026 06:15PM
British philosopher, humanist & logician
“ The goods of the mind re at least as important as the goods of the body”
“Thinking” supplies us with one of life’s greatest pleasures. I think, therefore I feel good = Cerebral hedonism.
Thinking is a delight in itself !
Mimi
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“He who has the courage to laugh, is master of the world, much like he who is prepared to die.
If all you seek from something is pleasure, you’ll never find it. All you will feel is existential boredom up to disgust. To find & feel real pleasure in any act or activity, you have to oursue some greater purpose !
The pursuut of happiness is a dead end; but if you give up on that pursuit, you find pleasure.
— Sep 09, 2026 06:07PM
If all you seek from something is pleasure, you’ll never find it. All you will feel is existential boredom up to disgust. To find & feel real pleasure in any act or activity, you have to oursue some greater purpose !
The pursuut of happiness is a dead end; but if you give up on that pursuit, you find pleasure.
Mimi
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GIACCOMO LEOPARDI (1798-1837), poet & philosopher, pessimist
Nature, with her custom beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure.
He sees life as a joke: we’re handed a life full of promise, but all we end up with is desillusion & disappointment.
— Sep 09, 2026 05:58PM
Nature, with her custom beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure.
He sees life as a joke: we’re handed a life full of promise, but all we end up with is desillusion & disappointment.
Mimi
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How to live your life ? Be true to yourswlf !
What is the nature of the true self that the daring man seeks ? If i am diligent, in my depths i will find the madman, the artist, the immoralist etc not all pretty !
To think for yourself, you must question authority & learn how to put tourself in a vulnerable state of openmindedness, confused vulnerability to inform yourself, a state of chaos.
— Sep 09, 2026 01:48AM
What is the nature of the true self that the daring man seeks ? If i am diligent, in my depths i will find the madman, the artist, the immoralist etc not all pretty !
To think for yourself, you must question authority & learn how to put tourself in a vulnerable state of openmindedness, confused vulnerability to inform yourself, a state of chaos.
Mimi
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE (1844-1900)
PHilosopher & social critic
“the secret of the greatest fruitfulness & the greatest enjoyment of existence is to live dangerously”
His book: Thus Spake Zarathustra
We can all create our lives but nit all chosen meanings of life can be xonsidered equal in value.
— Sep 08, 2026 06:06PM
PHilosopher & social critic
“the secret of the greatest fruitfulness & the greatest enjoyment of existence is to live dangerously”
His book: Thus Spake Zarathustra
We can all create our lives but nit all chosen meanings of life can be xonsidered equal in value.