Directory For The Love Of Wisdom
A—B
Abraham Lincoln On Equality And Government
Abraham Lincoln On History And Judgement
Adrienne Rich On Human Relationships
Adyashanti On The Known And Unknown
Alain de Botton On Communicators
Alain de Botton On Human Nature
Alan Gerard Fletcher On Imagination
Alan Watts On Fortune And Chance
Alan Watts On The Universe Inside Us
Albert Camus On Opening The Heart
Albert Einstein On Great Spirits
Albert Einstein On Imagination
Albert Einstein On Intuitive Mind
Albert Einstein On The Mysterious
Albert Schweitzer On Gratitude
Albert Schweitzer On Inhumanity
Albert Schweitzer On The Question
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi On The Universe
Aldis Hodge On Police Brutality
Aldous Huxley On Appetites Of The Soul
Aldous Huxley On Enlightenment
Alejandra Pizarnik On Melancholia
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn On Evil
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn On Revelations
Alexander Hamilton On Sacred Rights
Alfred Lord Tennyson On Flower In The Crannied Wall
Alfred Russel Wallace On Wealth
Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi Devil) On Individuals
Ananda Coomaraswamy On Artists
Anaïs Nin On The Artist’s Task
Andrea Barrett On Writing And Science
Angela Yvonne Davis On Freedom
Anita Loos On Women’s Liberationists
Ann Hamilton On The Possibilities Of Art
Anna Akhmatova On Poetry And Love
Anne Elizabeth Applebaum On Lies And Liars – For The Love Of Wisdom
Anne Lamott On Beauty And Meaning
Anne Sexton On Welcome Morning
Annemarie Roeper On The Core Of Your Being
Anthony de Mello On Enlightenment
Antoine De Saint-Exupery On Responsibility
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov On Marriage
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov On Wealth
Antonio Damasio On Culture And Life
Anya Krugovoy Silver On Cancer
Arthur Koestler On Living Your Life
Arthur Rimbaud On My Bohemian Life
Audre Lorde On Acceptable Women
Audre Lorde On Living While Dying
Audre Lorde On The Transformation Of Silence
Authur Rimbaud On My Bohemian Life
Barack Obama On Different Points Of View
Barack Obama On Political Power
Barbara Ras On You Can’t Have It All
Baruch Spinoza On Understanding
Bernard Augustine DeVoto On The Martini
Bertrand Russell On Critical Thinking
Bertrand Russell On Fanaticism
Bertrand Russell On Fear, Religion, And God
Bertrand Russell On Religion And Fear
Billy Collins On Forgetfulness
Billy Collins On The Romantics
Booker T Washington On Success
Bruce Hood On The Self and Freewill
C—D
CS Lewis On Self Consciousness
Carl Jung On Inner Experiences
Carol S Dweck On Personal Growth And Mindset
Charles Bukowski On Creativity And Writing
Charles Dickens On Abstractions
Charles M Blow On Mass Shootings
Charles M Blow On Move On, But Never Forget
Charles M Blow On Is Trump a Rapist?
Cheryl Strayed On People Watching
Chinua Achebe On Art And Politics
Chris Van Allsburg On Christmas Magic
Christopher Eric Hitchens On Alcohol
Christopher Eric Hitchens On Death
Christopher Hampton On Critics
Cliff Joseph On The Power Of Art
Countess Constance Markievicz On Equality
César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza On Life
David Abram On Interconnectedness
David Bohm On Living In Harmony
David Foster Wallace On Enough
David Foster Wallace On Reading
David Frederick Attenborough On Climate Change
David Frederick Attenborough On The Earth
David James On What’s Important
David Stephen Mitchell On Midlife
Deborah Levy On Chaos And Life
Denise Levertov On To Be A Poet
Derek Walcott On Bleecker Street
Derek Walcott On Love After Love
Donald Trump On The Death Of 250,000 American Citizens
Donald Winnicott On Debt To A Woman
Doris Kearns Goodwin On History
Duke Ellington On Jazz And Freedom
Dwight D. Eisenhower On The Military Industrial Complex
E—F
Ed Simon On The Collapse Of Democracy
Edith Wharton On A Woman’s Nature
Eduardo Porter On Social Dysfunction
Edward Hirsch On Reading Poetry
Eleanor Roosevelt On Integrity
Elie Wiesel On Being A Witness
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross On Living
Elizabeth Acevedo On Belonging
Elizabeth Gilbert On A Rich Life
Ella Wheeler Wilcox On Protest
Emily Levine On Life, Death And Dying
Enrico Fermi On Atomic Weapons
Erich Fromm On Mastering The Art Of Love
Esther Sternberg On Connections
Evelyn Fox Keller On Inner Experiences
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald On Intelligence
Frank Ostaseski On Birth-Death
Franklin Delano Roosevelt On Fear
Franz Kafka On Music And Poetry
Frederick Douglass On Crimes Of The Unites States
Frederick Douglass On Reflection
Freeman Dyson On Scientific Theories
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche On Being Yourself
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche On Endurance
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche On Living
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche On Truth
G—H
Gabriel García Márquez On Journalism
Gabriel García Márquez On Memory
Gabriel García Márquez On Life
Gary Younge On Thriving Against Racism
Gaston Bachelard On Consciousness
Genevieve Dewar on Human Nature
George Bernard Shaw On Indifference
George Perkins Marsh On The Environment
Georgia O’Keeffe On Friendship
Georgia O’Keeffe On Living Your Life
Georgia O’Keeffe On Starting Over
Gerard De Nerval On My Universe
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi On Music
Guy Fawkes On The Fifth Of November
Hagai El-Ad On Israel’s Apartheid
Hank Tusinski On Brush Painting
Hannah Arendt On Meaning And Truth
Hannah Arendt On Pursuit Of Happiness
Hannah Arendt On Silent Intercourse
Hannah Arendt On Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt On Totalitarianism
Harold Maine On The Hour Of Man
Harriet Tubman On The Underground Railroad
Haruki Murakami On Aging And Interviews
Helen Fisher On Love As Addiction
Henry David Thoreau On Knowing
Henry David Thoreau On Self Care
Henry David Thoreau On Solitude
Henry David Thoreau On The Mind/Body Disconnect
Henry David Thoreau On Unjust Laws
Henry Miller On The Miraculous
Howard Roger Garis On Thinking
Howard Washington Thurman On Your Inner Voice
Hugh Macleod On Find Your Own Shtick
Huston Smith On Art And The Zen Life
I—J
Inge and Sten Hegeler On Seeing
Iris Murdoch On Art And Philosophy
Iris Murdoch On Tyrants And Art
Irving Kristol On Equal Distribution
Isabel Allende On Story Telling
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī On Joy
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī On Solitude
James Baldwin On Responsibility
James Baldwin On Say Yes To Life
James Baldwin On The Artist’s Task
James Broughton On Wondrous The Merge
James Comey On A Dangerous Time
James Kavanaugh On There Are Men Too Gentle To Live Among Wolves
James Matsumoto Omura On Internment And Racism
James Maxwell Anderson On Biography
Jane Hirshfield On The Creative Self
Jean Jacques Rousseau On Ownership
Jean-Pierre Weill On Well Being
Jeanette Winterson On Healing And Continuity
Jeanette Winterson On Language
Jeanine Michna-Bales On Woman ‘s Suffrage
Jiddu Krishnamurti On Killing: Let Us Not Forget
Jim Newton On Income Inequality
John Berryman On Being A Writer
John O’Donohue On Inner Experience
John Steinbeck On The Task Of The Artist
John Updike On Speaking And Writing
John Uzoma Ekwugha Amaechi On Becoming
John Uzoma Ekwugha Amaechi On White Privilege
Joseph Brodsky On Life And Work
Joseph Campbell On Sacred Space
Joseph Goebbels On Lies And Hatred
Joseph Roth On Hotels And Home
Josephine Baker On Differences
Justice Harry Blackmun On When Life Begins
Justice John Roberts On Truth And The Judiciary
Justina Chen On The Precipice Of A Decision
Juāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī On To Live
Jyoti Donovan On Enlightenment And God
K—L
Kahlil Gibran On Solitude And Silence
Katherine Anne Porter On Experience
Katherine Hepburn On Satisfaction
Kathy Bates as Gertrude Stein In The Movie-Midnight In Paris-On The Artist’s Task
Katie Hill On Double Standards
Keith Allen Haring On Fear And Loving
Keith Allen Haring On Individual Creativity
Kenan Malik On The Search For Meaning
Kenneth Patchen On Love And Rebellion
Kim Addonizio On PoetryKay Ryan On Poetry
Kingsley William Amis On Drinking
Langston Hughes On April Rain Song
Langston Hughes On The Weary Blues
László Krasznahorkai On Living
Laura Riding On Doing And Thinking
Laurie Ann Paul On Transformation
Leonard Michaels On Cats And Loneliness
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry On Depression
Louis-Ferdinand Céline On Travel
Louise Gluck On Walking At Night
Lucie Brock Broido On Freedom Of Speech
Lucile Aurore Dupin (George Sand) On Understanding
Lucinda Williams On Understanding
Lucy Stone On Women Liberationist
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein On Language
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein On Philosophy
Ludwig van Beethoven On Defective Hearing And Solitude
Ludwig van Beethoven On Genius
Lydia Susanna Hunter On Secrets
Lyndon B Johnson On Voting, Racism And Fear
Lynn Margulis On Interconnectedness
M—N
MC Richards On The Creative Spirit
Madeleine L’Engle On Self Consciousness
Manly Hall On The Secret Teachings
Marc Wittmann On Consciousness
Marc Wittmann On Time And Space
Margaret Mead On Love And Hate
Marge Piercy On The End Of Days
Margery Williams On What Is Real
Maria Konnikova On Control And Chance
Maria Popova On Emotional Generosity
Maria Popova On Art From Heartache
Maria Popova On Chance and Choice
Maria Popova On Shoreless Seeds And Stardust
Maria Popova On Solitude And Loneliness
Maria Popova On Speaking And Listening
Maria Popova On The Golden Age
Maria Popova On Walking And Love
Marie Corelli On Life’s Greatest Transition
Marina Umaschi Bers On Technology
Mark Strand On Being A Witness
Mark Strand On When The Vacation Is Over For Good
Martha Nussbaum On Being Human
Martha Nussbaum On Inner Experience
Martha Nussbaum On Love And Suffering
Martha Nussbaum On The Heart And Mind
Martin L King On Freedom And Oppression
Martin L King On The Promised Land
Martin L King On The Ultimate Test
Martin Louis Amis On Homosexuality
Martin Luther King on Non-Violence
Marx Planck On Self Observation
Mary Oliver On One Or Two Things
Mary Wollstonecraft On Hoary Establishments
May Sarton On Success And Failure
Maya Angelou On Phenomenal Woman
Megan O’Grady On Art And The Reflected Life
Megan Rapinoe On White Privilege
Melissa Pritchard On Writers And Art
Meshell Ndegeocello On Books And Reading
Michael Chabon On Writing And Life
Michael Champlin On Creative Space
Michael Pollan On Psychedelic Experience
Michael Singer On The Human Heart
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin On Immigration
Miles Davis On The Origin Of Music
Mirabai Starr On Taking Refuge
Mohsin Hamid On The Great American Novel
Molière On The Ills Of Mankind
Moondog (Louis Thomas Hardin) On Originality
Naomi Benaron On The Rwandan Genocide
Nathaniel Hawthorne On Intermediate Space
Nathaniel Hawthorne On Literature
Neil deGrasse Tyson On Connections
Neil deGrasse Tyson On Transformation
Neil deGrasse Tyson On Who We Are
Nelson Mandela On Something Special
Niels Bohr On Language And Religion
Nigella Lucy Lawson On Solitude
Nikki Giovanni On Beautiful Black Men
Noam Chomsky On Freedom Of Speech
O—P—Q
Ochwiay Biano In Conversation With Carl Jung On Thinking
Octavia Butler On Leadership And Fear
Oliver Sacks On Bearing Witness
Oliver Sacks On Healing And Nature
Oliver Sacks On Sudden Insight
Oliver Sacks On Truth, Beauty And The Periodic Table
Oscar-Claude Monet On Unhappiness
Paola Antonelli On Flags As Symbols
Patricia Carroll-Mathes On Another Lovely Day
Pearl S Buck On Living In A Double World
Penelope Margaret Lively On Being Human
Percy Bysshe Shelley On Poetry
Philip José Farmer On Imagination
Philip Pullman On Story Telling
Pierre Trudeau On The Greater Good
R—S
Rachel Carson On The Environment
Rachel Carson On The Mysterious
Rachel Licker On Climate Change
Rainer Maria Rilke On Changing The World
Rainer Maria Rilke On Encounters
Rainer Maria Rilke On Listening
Rainer Maria Rilke On Questions
Rainer Maria Rilke On Relationships And Solitude
Rainer Maria Rilke On Transformation And Love
Rainer Maria Rilke On Transformation
Ralph Ellison On The Invisible Man
Ralph Waldo Emerson On Being Yourself
Ralph Waldo Emerson On Tomorrow
Raymond Carver On The Hotel Del Mayo
Raymond Thornton Chandler On Writing
Rebecca Mead On Being Uncommitted
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein On Love
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein On Personal Identity
Rebecca Solnit On Democracy And Authoritarianism
Rebecca Solnit On Lies And Language
Rebecca Solnit On The Pandemic
Rebecca Solnit On Representation
Rebecca Solnit On The Man In The White House
Rebecca Solnit On Transformation
Richard Feynman On Imagination
Richard Feynman On Imagination
Richard Powers On Expectations
Richard Wright On Hunger For Life
Robert Bly On Listening To The Köln Concert
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil On Experts
Robert Graves On Flying Crooked
Robert Louis Stevenson On Travel
Robert PInsky On Art And Poetry
Robert Penn Warren On The Self
Robin Wall Kimmerer On Stories
Rodman Edward “Rod” Sterling On TV Production
Saint Augustine On The Greater and The Lesser
Samantha Heintzelman On Habits
Samin Nosrat On Joy, Cooking And Beans
Saul Bellows On Manifesto for Life
Seung Sahn Soen-sa On Sameness
Sherwin Bernard Nuland On Pain And Love
Sherwin Bernard Nuland On Understanding
Sherwin Nuland On Universality
Shirley Anita Chisholm On Racism
Shirley Jackson On Inner Vision
Shunryū Suzuki On The Beginner’s Mind
Simone de Beauvoir On The Past And The Present
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle On Truth
Søren Kierkegaard On Happiness
Stephen Edward Ambrose On Patriotism
Stephen Hawking On The Universe
Stephen William Hawking On Mankind
Stephen John Fry On The Cosmos
Steve Jobs OnTime
Susan Minot On Becoming A Writer
Susan Sontag On The White Race
Susan Sontag On Time And Space
T—U—V
Tao Writer On A Personal Space
Tao Writer On Friendship And Solitude
Tao Writer On Standing Undiminished
Tao Writer On The Crushing Weight Of GoodBye
Terry Tempest Williams On Aggression
Terry Tempest Williams On Faith
Thich Nhat Hahn On Love And Presence
Thomas L. Friedman On Trump And Nationalism
Thomas Merton On Technology And Wisdom
Thomas Michael Bond On Fantasy
Tim Kreider On Freedom And Enough
Toni Morrison On Books And Questions
Toni Morrison On The Artist’s Task
Toni Morrison On The Artist’s Task
Toni Morrison On Walls And Ammunitions
Trevor Noah On Fear And Laughter
Twyla Hansen On Trying To Pray
Tyler Mortensen-Hayes On Active Shooter Drills
Ursula K Le Guin Anger And Hatred
Ursula K Le Guin On Perfection
Ursula K Le Guin On The Future
Ursula K Le Guin On Information
Victoria Woodhull On Reform And Love
Vincent van Goth On Friendship
Virginia Esther Hamilton On Want
Virginia Woolf On Reading And Mind
Virginia Woolf On The Thing Itself
Virginia Woolf On Writing And Sex
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov On Creativity
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov On Death
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov On Life
Voltairine de Cleyre On Anarchism
W—X
WEB Du Bois On Being The Problem
Wallace Stevens On The Artist’s Task
Walt Whitman On Living Your Life
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin On Wisdom
Wendell Berry On A Questionnaire
Wendell Berry On How To Be A Poet
William Bolcom On Songs Of Innocence
William Carlos Williams On This Is Just To Say
William De Witt Snodgrass On Personal Poetry
William Gibson On The Collapse Of Democracy And Climate Change
William Godwin On Multiple Languages
William Howard Gass On Mischance
William James On Mystical States
William Lewis Safire On Writing
William Rose Benét On Writing Poetry
William Vogt On Environmental Destiny
William Vogt On The Environment
William Vogt On Interconnectness
Winnie The Pooh On Doing Nothing
Winston Churchill On The Independent Person
Wisława Szymborska On Inspiration
Wisława Szymborska On Possibilities
Wisława Szymborska On The Moment
Woody Allen On Why Is Life Worth Living?
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