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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

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I see religion as a storehouse of lots of really good ideas that a secular world should look at, raid, and learn from.

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Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

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The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only need to achieve autonomy fr...more

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For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that the simplicity it displays has been hard ...more

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In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed to carry a large consignment of ideas. 'W...more

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Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements has been brought...more

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If the world seems unfair or beyond our understanding, sublime places suggest that it is not surprising that things should be thus. We are the playthi...more