Prince Conversation
A wild boar was sharpening his tusks on a tree trunk one day. A fox asked him why he did this when there was neither huntsman nor danger threatening him. …
Category: Philosophy*
Creating a Great life
Essential Pattern
“Pressing down the pillow” refers to one’s efforts not to let the head of one’s opponent rise. In battles based on martial strategy, it is taboo to let your opponent …
Reverse Strategy
… The ninth plague, three days of complete darkness, was most alarming for a kingdom that worshipped the sun and dreaded a persistent eclipse. Like the third and the sixth, …
Philosopher Vs. Skeptic
Saturnine, Faustian, brooding Sal Maglie refused to leave the mound. At a critical moment, the Barber lost his nerve. Davey Williams, the Giant’s second baseman, rushed over, and as he …
Family Evolution
In all scientific demonstrations we always unavoidably base our calculation upon some false standards [of duration or measurement ] but as these standards are at least constant, as, for example, …
Reverse Deterrence
Therefore the belief in the freedom of the will is a primordial error of everything organic as old as the very earliest inward prompting of the logical faculty; belief …
Sensational Horse
A certain person said the following. There are two kinds of dispositions, inward and outward, and a person who lacks one or the other is worthless. It is, for example, …
Vision Evaluation
The fundamental problems of Metaphysics – If a history of the development of thought is ever written, the following proposition, advanced by a distinguished logician, will be illuminated with a …
Strategic Structure
And in all the other forms of the principle of sufficient reason, we shall find the same emptiness and shall see that not time only but also space, and the …
The Lonely Impression
What has actually happened? The feeling of worthlessness was realised when it was understood that neither the notion of “purpose” nor that of “Unity” nor that of “Truth” could be …