Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers..

We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull. But what….

Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is in ourselves, ….

One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy..

The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we are obl….

The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a….

When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit….

We feel something, and reach out for the nearest phrase or hum with which to communicate, but which fails to do justice to what has induced us to do ….

Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; I wa….

It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety..

As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day..

Status Anxiety: A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger of failing to conform to th….

Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the beautiful and ….

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass..

The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling gracef….

Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with di….

Alcohol-inspired fights are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order..

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could..

Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value..

Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department..

Objectively good spaces to work rarely end up being so; in their faultlessness, quiet and well-equipped studios have a habit of rendering the fear of….