Gilles Deleuze on Courage

Between Faith & Doubt

What images can be created between the seen and unseen? What poems can be recited between the spoken and unuttered? What songs can be composed between sound and silence? What journeys can be traveled between earth and sky? What meals … Read more →

Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness with Alain de Botton

Released in 2000, Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness is a three-hour, six part documentary by Swiss born British writer/philosopher Alain de Botton, based on his book The Consolations of Philosophy in which he suggests the teachings of philosophers like Epicurus, … Read more →

Alfred Hitchcock on the Meaning of Happiness

Alfred Hitchcock, master of the psychological thriller, shares his earnest philosophy of happiness. A clear horizon, nothing to worry about on your plate. Only things that are creative and not destructive. That’s within yourself, within me. I can’t bear quarreling. … Read more →

Where’s Your Passport?

Here’s a favorite video from the folks at AK Rockefeller. AK Rockefeller – Passport The sample is of Charlie Chaplin’s son from Charlie Chaplin’s film “A King in New York” – “To leave a country is like breaking out of … Read more →

Gilles Deleuze on Courage

Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that our vanity and our complacency bestow generously on us, have many deceptive sojourns as the … Read more →