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    Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It: Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live
    Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It: Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live
    Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It: Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live
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    Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It: Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live

    Written by Daniel Klein

    Narrated by James Jenner

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    A humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the New York Times-bestselling coauthor of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar ... Daniel Klein's fans have fallen in love with the warm, humorous, and thoughtful way he shows how philosophy resonates in everyday life. Readers of his popular books Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar ... and Travels with Epicurus come for enlightenment and stay for the entertainment. As a young college student studying philosophy, Klein filled a notebook with short quotes from the world's greatest thinkers, hoping to find some guidance on how to live the best life he could. Now, from the vantage point of his eighth decade, Klein revisits the wisdom he relished in his youth with this collection of philosophical gems, adding new ones that strike a chord with him at the end of his life. From Epicurus to Emerson and Camus to the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr-whose words provided the title of this book-each pithy extract is annotated with Klein's inimitable charm and insights. In these pages, our favorite jokester-philosopher tackles life's biggest questions, leaving us chuckling and enlightened.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateOct 27, 2015
    ISBN9781490699325
    Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It: Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live
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    Daniel Klein

    Daniel Klein is the co-author of the international bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar. He is a Harvard graduate in philosophy and an acclaimed writer of both fiction and non-fiction. When not enjoying the slow life on Greek islands, he lives in Massachusetts with his wife. He is seventy-four years old.

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    • 3/5
      I bought this book for the title alone. That appears to be a quote from the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. Humor occupies a prominent place in the work of Daniel Klein (b. 1939), and that is also the case in this book. Starting from about 25 quotes, the author provides a brief introduction to philosophy, focusing on the question of how life is best lived. This kind of "practical philosophy" was once the core of philosophical thought, says Klein. Movements such as Epicureanism, Stoicism, Hedonism and so on are of course reviewed. But the author goes much wider, and also deeper, with even a bit of epistemology (how can we know?). Due to the many examples from his own life and the almost permanent humor, this booklet remains light and pleasant to read, but do not expect great, life-changing insights from it.
    • 3/5
      I liked the gentle humor dispersed throughout the various schools of philosophy. Other than that, I would not go running out any time soon for another book on philosophy as one it is a bit too 'high brow ' for me, and atom splitting. Secondly a great deal of the respected and quoted philosophers are atheists and agnostics and that is not a direction I wish to go.

      I know someone who has a MA in philosophy and up until now I was quite amazed at her smarts, while I having just a lowly MA in Education and foreign language - oh how times have changed. Sitting thru classes day in and day out for a year would feel like I was watching paint dry !

      I'd rather take theology classes even if they are not of my personal beliefs.
    • 3/5
      This pocket-sized book contains reflections by the author on particular philosophers’ quotes. Like many that have come before and more that will come after, Klein dwells on how philosophy can both guide and perplex. The reader will walk away understanding that no one philosopher has all the answer and the challenge is to think rather than conclude. Overall, the book is one man’s philosophical photo album of snapshots in thought.Goodreads Giveaway randomly chose me to receive this book free from the publisher. I was under no obligation to write a review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.
    • 3/5
      When he was a college student, Daniel Klein began keeping a notebook with quotes from philosophers he liked. Now, at the other end of life, Klein takes another look at the quotes from a different vantage point.
    • 4/5
      The author was a philosophy major in college and there started keeping a journal of quotes from his favorite philosophers. In this volume, he reviews those quotes with new insights and anecdotes from his life since then. It's a quick read and poses lots of questions for the reader. His observations of the truisms mimic many of mine. My thanks to the author and the Penguin First to Read program for a complimentary copy of this book.