We walk in the shadows we cast. Let's be the architects of a better future.

This is the famous last line in one of Beckett's novels. But it's not just a last line, it's a credo for human existence!

We treat melancholy as a pathology, something to be cured or eradicated. But we've lost sight of it's real value!

Socrates doesn't just undermine his interlocutors, Plato undermines us! Or so argues the contemporary philosopher Alexander Nehamas!

They all gushed over Nero, and they're no different today! It's all very embarrassing and sad.

Woman in the Dunes is a 1964 Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara. It's about a guy who gets trapped in a sandpit and has to keep shovelling sand to stay alive! It's a repetitive and futile situation! Ring any bells?

In our age of digitization, our sense of touch has clearly been demoted. For thinkers like Aristotle and Nietzsche, the cost is enormous!

The German philosopher Schopenhauer believed that compassion was the true foundation of morality. It worked best when it came to his dogs!