Alan Watts on the Confucian Concept of Jen and the Dangers of Self-Righteousness – The Marginalian
A great tragedy of our time, this epoch of self-righteousness, is the zeal with which people would rather feel right […]
Psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis on the Essence of Freedom and the Two Elements of Self-Transcendence – The Marginalian
“All that you touch you Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change,” Octavia Butler
Lichens and the Meaning of Life – The Marginalian
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe,” the
Saul Bellow’s Spectacular Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech on How Art and Literature Ennoble the Human Spirit – The Marginalian
In a 1966 interview, Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915–April 5, 2005) articulated the seed of what would blossom into a
John Christopher Jones’s Seminal Vintage Vision for the Future of Design – The Marginalian
By Maria Popova More than two years ago, Nate Burgos of Design Feast brought us the first installment of Rare
The Gospel of Pete Seeger and Nina Simone – The Marginalian
“Whatever has happened, whatever is going to happen,” the poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote, “it is the living moment that contains