Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths by Shimon Edelman

Author:Shimon Edelman [Edelman, Shimon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Essays; Cognitive Psycholog; Medical Cognitive Psychology; Life; realism; optimism; humanities, humanity; human condition; consciousness; death; empathy; existence; free will; happiness; essays; examined life.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2020-09-18T00:00:00+00:00

Of related interest

To watch: Nicholas Roeg, Walkabout (1971)

To listen: Maurice Ravel, Boléro (1928)

To read: Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams (1993)

Jorge Luis Borges, “A New Refutation of Time” in Selected Non-Fictions (1999b)

Jorge Luis Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths” in Labyrinths ([1941] 1970c)

Martin Amis, Time’s Arrow (1991)

To go: Jerusalem; Rome; Death Valley.

36 Truth

A melancholy pearl. Ministries of information. Into the well.

Happiness is desirable for its own sake: truth is desirable only as a mean of producing happiness; for who would not prefer an agreeable delusion to a melancholy truth?

—James Beattie

Bullshit makes the flowers grow & that’s beautiful.

—Malaclypse the Younger, Principia Discordia

Of truth we know nothing, for truth is in a well.

—Democritus1

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