Many believe that the most important social divide in the West today is between the political left and right. Much of the discourse in the corporate and independent media revolves around this battle,

. . .when a living organism is cut off from its roots, it loses a connection with the foundation of its existence and must necessarily perish. Carl Jung, Aion Carl Jung dedicated his life to a sin

The warriors approach is to say yes to life: yea to it allOpportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life

totalitarian domination as a form of government is new in that it bases itself on loneliness, on the experience of not belonging to the world at all, which is among the most radical and desperate ex

in those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own. Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freenes

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. Henri-Frdric Amiel, Amiels Journal Depression is the darkest of human experiences. It saps o

In the 1st century AD, the Greek orator and philosopher Dio Chrysostom wrote: Luxury makes pains seem even harder, and dulls and weakens ones pleasures. For the person who is always luxuriating and

It seems to me that we face very grave crises indeed and that, if we are to survive, we need not just a few new measures, but a complete change of heart and mind. Iain McGilchrist, The Master and Hi

Remember Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes exhausts and [destroys] itself. . .It is in vain to Say that Democracy is less proud, less selfish, less ambitious or less avaricious than Aristo

To live alone one must be either a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols According to a 2010 study published in the journal P