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After reading Thomas Metzinger's ‘The Ego Tunnel’ -  Happiness, suffering and the conscious life: Thomas Metzinger, german prof...

Tender is the Night Oh, tender is the night in nihilistic ramblings under the cloak of the white moth - Mother? Oh, harmful is the touc...

Resonance: Enough of digitisation, pluralisation, globalisation? Life has become too complex? Why don't you get away from civil...

Artist Josè Dávila: Recently I visited an exhibition in the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, titled „Durch Mauern gehen“ (“W...

The BBC has published a list of 100 books that “shaped our world" to mark the 300th anniversary of the English language novel. Wh...

“Fulfilled Life" by Bertrand Russell: A quote from British philosopher, mathematician, historian  and Nobel laureate Bertr...

on Beauty: Meeting nature on its own terms and timescales broadens our perspective by effecting a detachment from the urgencies of d...

Herbsttag  Herr: es ist Zeit. Der Sommer war sehr groß.   Leg deinen Schatten auf die Sonnenuhren,   und auf den Fluren laß die Wi...

Melancholy: The Blues has got me. There’s no sun up in the sky, stormy weather... I stand by my window, look out at October-tint...

Loneliness and Creativity: A most unpleasant feeling. Since we are, biologically, evolutionary descendants of social animals, animal...

Meditation on a Grapefruit To wake when all is possible before the agitations of the day have gripped you                       To c...

Multitudinous Seas Incarnadine...  Whence is that knocking? How is't with me, when every noise appalls me? What hands are here? ...

Words, English Words - A Transcript of Virginia Woolf‘s BBC Broadcast: Sometimes the arts themselves interlink, music and painting, m...

Funeral Blues  Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and wit...

“A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara*: It may be dark and traumatic, and it was published in 2016, but it is one of the most moving ...