Category Archives: Philosophy

Major Joke: That kid makes up questions for himself, and even those he can’t solve

Major truth: He is truly awe­some. Or at least, so I believe. When Lock­hart said, In fact,  if  I  had  to  design  a mech­a­nism  for  the  express pur­pose  of  destroy­ing  a  child’s  nat­ural curios­ity and  love of  pattern-making, I couldn’t pos­si­bly do as good a  job as  is  cur­rently being done. I didn’t quite agree with

What gives us more pleasure: the pursuit of of our desires or the attainment of them?

From Tony Robbins’s ‘The Monk who sold his Fer­rari’: “How would you drop an egg thruogh a height of four feet, with a floor of con­crete below, and still not have it cracked?” Triv­ially, we all begin by think­ing how to cir­cum­vent the hard­ness of the con­crete, or the weak­ness of the egg. We do

Do we value only what we struggle for?

When was the last time you were delighted to get some­thing you were ‘sup­posed’ to? For instance, how many of us would actu­ally delight in receiv­ing break­fast? Not me! What we do not strug­gle for, we take as granted — the most fun­da­men­tal exam­ple being our own exis­tence. Rarely would one find some­body so con­sci­en­tious, he

Know Thyself

Know thy­self. — Ora­cle ‘Nuff Said.

Why did I learn the Alphabet?

For those of you came here to just know the answer, very bluntly put — I don’t know. That per­haps why I asked the ques­tion in the first place. Also because the ques­tion trou­bles me. When I used to do it, I never even thought about it. Just like I never thought about any­thing I did

The Opinion Paradox

An opin­ion of mine: All opin­ions are spu­ri­ous, and delu­sory. Believe in this opin­ion of mine. Have fun deal­ing with that one! It seri­ously pains me, how every body opin­ion­ates on every other thing, per­son, and activ­ity. The worst part per­haps, is how even I, despite being con­scious of this ter­ri­ble habit, fall prone to it often. I

Hitopadesa — A Penguin India Classic

I reg­is­tered for this “blog a Pen­guin India Clas­sic”, got the book, and didn’t man­age to com­plete it for nearly two months. That goes nowhere to say how good or bad the book was, but does go to say how cal­lous, dis­tracted and shame­less a per­son I am. Well, I finally man­aged to read through

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

A story. Yup. That’s all it is. Minus the adjec­tives. Life-changing, mem­o­rable, and most influ­en­tial; unfor­get­table and really thor­oughly awe­some. Of course it would only be self-flattering to say any such thing on them­selves.  It is about a seag­ull with the name of Jonathan Liv­ingston. I could go about telling you the whole story, con­sid­er­ing

The Art of Adjusting

The rea­son­able man adapts him­self to the world. The unrea­son­able man per­sists in attempt­ing to adapt the world to him­self. All progress in the world, there­fore, is depen­dent on the unrea­son­able man. –G.B. Shaw We Indi­ans (yes, call me a racist here, but I still plod on) are not taught this when we are kids. We are told the story of

Does History Repeat Itself?

Q. Prompt: “His­tory repeats itself. This is a tes­ti­mony to the stu­pid­ity of man.” –Adapted from Edith Hamil­ton “His­tory does not repeat. It rhymes.” –Mark Twain Assign­ment: Does his­tory repeat itself? […] Write an essay. A. Does His­tory Repeat Itself? No — in my view, His­tory does not repeat itself. I would con­cur with Mark Twain —