The death of marriage has been announced so often and would seem so normal, in a sense. So what's surprising is the sheer longevity and tenacity of this institution.
Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make.
Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.
Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.
A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
Then I noticed a small plate of complimentary marshmallows near Chloe's elbow and it suddenly seemed clear that I didn't love Chloe so much as marshmallow her. What it was about a marshmallow that sho...
The travails of being an employee include not only uncertainty about the duration of one's employment, but also the humiliation of many working practices and dynamics. With most businesses shaped like...
Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to en...
Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.
Workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with only the added difficulty that whereas families are at least well-recognised and sanctioned loci for hyst...
Antik dönemde filozoflar,insanın mutlu olabilmesi için hangi maddi koşulların gerekli hangilerinin gereksiz olduğu konusunda ateşli tartışmalar girmişlerdir.Örneğin Epikür, insana yalnızca yemek ve ba...
I'm fascinated by Comte's clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which is that you've got industrial capitalism on one side and romantic love on the other. Those, along with non-in...
To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.
At the end of hours of train-dreaming, we may feel we have been returned to ourselves - that is, brought back into contact with emotions and ideas of importance to us. It is not necessarily at home th...
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
What we encounter in works of art and philosophy are objective versions of our own pains and struggles, evoked and defined in sound, language or image. Artists and philosophers not only show us what w...
What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as much as possible of the other … you have the choice: either as little di...
We should add: it is a privilege to be the recipient of a sulk; it means the other person respects and trusts us enough to think we should understand their unspoken hurt. It is one of the odder gifts...