Like flies to wanton boys are we to the Gods; they but kill us for their sport. – King Lear, Act III, Scene 1 – These words are spoken by Gloucester who has been betrayed by his bastard son, Edmund, and had his eyes gouged out by Regan’s husband, Cornwall. He is, quite understandably, in [...]
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Who knew Steve Jobs was also a wise philosopher? No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the [...]
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Here is an abstract of an interesting study done by the Stanford Graduate School of Business on the meaning of happiness: An examination of emotions reported on 12 million personal blogs along with the results of three experiments reveal that the meaning of happiness is not fixed; instead, it shifts as people age. Whereas younger people [...]
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