De Botton

[jozefpronek]

Alain de Botton's Consolations of Philosophy - much better than what the title promises. Focuses on various responses to various problems such as (in)adequacy, (lack of) self confidence, (lack of) love, hardship, anger, etc. - responses by Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. The book seems to follow Montaigne's

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[drklaymen]

"Your world is so small. And yet you box yourselves in rooms even smaller. You shut yourselves inside ... in rooms, in routines."

I enojoy reading your blog very much as well. Your Hebrew is much better than my Spanish, and a lot of parts in your journal which are written in Spanish are lost on me, but I am slowly improving...