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Between the User and the Used: Zadie Smith on Instrumentalism
The great paradox, the great pain of human relationships is that they are so often not relational: two lonelinesses colliding without real contact, one or both orienting to the other not as a person but as a projection, mistaking for intimacy its myriad illusions — admiration, adoration, desire. It is always dangerous and damaging, and…
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A Little Simplicity Guide For Any Area of Your Home or Life
Trying to simplify everything usually results in simplifying nothing at all. This little simplicity guide will help you prioritize one area of your home or life. Giving yourself permission to simplify one thing, or just one area… The post A Little Simplicity Guide For Any Area of Your Home or Life appeared first on Be…
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Hermann Hesse on Discovering the Soul Beneath the Self and the Key to Finding Peace
“Self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism, and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair.” “To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight,” E.E….
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Choosing an Expert to Believe
The argument from authority is a weak, but useful argument if used correctly. While people rarely follow the “strict” form of the argument, using it is to infer that a claim is true based on the (alleged) expertise of the person making the claim. Unlike deductive logic, the quality of an argument from authority does…
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