Philosophy

William Morrow | Philosophy, Essays There are books that arrive at exactly the right moment, and books that arrive long before the culture is ready for them. Lin Yutang’s The Importance of Living, published in 1937, belongs firmly to the second category. A Chinese philosopher writing in English, addressing a Western world he found baffling…

Penguin | Aphorisms and Personal Observations There is a particular pleasure in a book that does not ask you to start at the beginning. Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Bed of Procrustes is that kind of book: a collection of aphorisms that can be opened anywhere, read for five minutes or fifty, and set down without…