“She enjoyed her own pain by this egoism of suffering, if I may so express it. This aggravation of suffering...

philosophybits: “Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.” — Cicero, Laelius De Amicitia

[Revised entry by Emily A. E. Thomas on October 6, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Australian-born philosopher Samuel Alexander...

“Packing our message inside of existing cultural memes and humor can be viewed as a delivery method. Something like adding...

“Mere subjectivity, [Hegel] argued, insisting on the purity of its own principle, becomes entangled in antinomies. It is brought down...

“The real secret to beating envy is to realize that envy, in addition to being a great vice and an...

Are single-mindedness and arrogance what’s required to write great fiction? Consider the case of Cormac McCarthy

The almost-forgotten Akhenaten. The pharaoh revolutionized Egyptian theology and art, then was erased from the material record