"In an old man who has known human joys and sorrows, and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble. The best way to overcome it -so at least it seems to me- is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being." - Bertrand Russell
Submissions
Floating in Lithium
archis.org
1 points·by Vigier··0 comments
Magic by return of post: How mail order delivered the occult
publicdomainreview.org
51 points·by Vigier··5 comments
Can AI Prompt Us to Ask New Questions?
newsletter.dancohen.org
1 points·by Vigier··0 comments
Diary: Val McDermid, Deep Winter
books.substack.com
13 points·by Vigier··1 comments
Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival
publicdomainreview.org
17 points·by Vigier··1 comments
Bedside Manners: Can empathy be taught in medicine?
harpers.org
2 points·by Vigier··2 comments
The Middle Earth
historytoday.com
33 points·by Vigier··3 comments
Humanlike?
aeon.co
3 points·by Vigier··0 comments
Curbing the Power of the Popes
historytoday.com
8 points·by Vigier··0 comments
Circling the Good
nybooks.com
34 points·by Vigier··1 comments
Ogres Are Cool
lrb.co.uk
94 points·by Vigier··36 comments
Rembrandt to Picasso: Five ways to spot a fake masterpiece
bbc.com
43 points·by Vigier··29 comments
José Guadalupe Posada's Engravings of Unusual Births (Ca. 1880–1910)
publicdomainreview.org
15 points·by Vigier··0 comments
Treaties Lost in Translation
historytoday.com
3 points·by Vigier··0 comments
Cardan grille
en.wikipedia.org
44 points·by Vigier··8 comments
Who to Blame for Early Modern Climate Change?
historytoday.com
2 points·by Vigier··0 comments
Roaming Rocks
aeon.co
40 points·by Vigier··5 comments
Blame the Gerbils
lrb.co.uk
45 points·by Vigier··15 comments
The Brain Collector
theguardian.com
9 points·by Vigier··0 comments
The First Horse Domestication Was Later Than We Thought