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Ludwig Wittgenstein

A lot of unhappiness comes about in this world because we can’t let other people know what we mean clearly enough. One of the philosophers who can help us with this is Ludwig Wittgenstein. He was a philosopher, obsessed with the difficulties of language, who wanted to help us find a way out of some of the muddles we get into with words.

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How Psychotherapy Might Truly Help Us

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How Psychotherapy Might Truly Help Us

There can be considerable confusion as to why exactly it might be helpful to visit a psychotherapist. Typically we might…

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Three Essays on Flight

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Three Essays on Flight

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Henri Rousseau

The artist Henri Rousseau — who had no formal training, and who only began painting seriously in his forties —…

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Charles Dickens’s Secret

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Charles Dickens’s Secret

Almost no other writer has ever been quite as successful — whether critically or commercially — as Charles Dickens. He…

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Following in the Buddha’s Footsteps

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Following in the Buddha’s Footsteps

In northern India, by the 1st century CE, it became common to depict the Buddha in stone not as a…

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