Martin Janello
@martinjanello.bsky.social
Normative, public, meta-philosopher. AI. Author: Philosophy of Happiness. Maturing German Idealism/Romanticism/Materialism. Curated and original quotes & poems. Website: https://www.philosophyofhappiness.com/index.html
I love the recent ingenuity of #philosophy workers, and those aspiring to be, to post photos of philosophy books from their bookshelf, library, or catalogs. A fine expression of the belief association with philosophers or books about them improves their status. It seems to work!
December 2, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I love the recent ingenuity of #philosophy workers, and those aspiring to be, to post photos of philosophy books from their bookshelf, library, or catalogs. A fine expression of the belief association with philosophers or books about them improves their status. It seems to work!
The impending choice technological development imposes on humanity: (A) Rigorous curbs that guarantee human separation and domination or (B) merging with technology for humanity's and life's enhancement and proliferation. My 2013 book discusses this in SEC 7. See site in profile.
December 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
The impending choice technological development imposes on humanity: (A) Rigorous curbs that guarantee human separation and domination or (B) merging with technology for humanity's and life's enhancement and proliferation. My 2013 book discusses this in SEC 7. See site in profile.
she cries with me
when i am tormented
that's why i nevermore
want to be sad
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 4.
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#poetry
when i am tormented
that's why i nevermore
want to be sad
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 4.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry
December 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
she cries with me
when i am tormented
that's why i nevermore
want to be sad
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 4.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry
when i am tormented
that's why i nevermore
want to be sad
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 4.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry
"One person can and does make a difference."
Albert Schweitzer
Follow my timeline for a curated collection of practical philosophy #quotes. For more on building a philosophy of life, visit the website in my profile.
Albert Schweitzer
Follow my timeline for a curated collection of practical philosophy #quotes. For more on building a philosophy of life, visit the website in my profile.
December 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
"One person can and does make a difference."
Albert Schweitzer
Follow my timeline for a curated collection of practical philosophy #quotes. For more on building a philosophy of life, visit the website in my profile.
Albert Schweitzer
Follow my timeline for a curated collection of practical philosophy #quotes. For more on building a philosophy of life, visit the website in my profile.
Little Girl: "Mom, what noise does a donkey make?"
Mom: "Ask your father."
Mom: "Ask your father."
December 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Little Girl: "Mom, what noise does a donkey make?"
Mom: "Ask your father."
Mom: "Ask your father."
“Only in times when reality is a hollow existence devoid of spirit and attitude may the individual be permitted to
flee back from the real to the inner liveliness.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Follow my timeline for posts and quotes on German Idealism and its context.
flee back from the real to the inner liveliness.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Follow my timeline for posts and quotes on German Idealism and its context.
December 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“Only in times when reality is a hollow existence devoid of spirit and attitude may the individual be permitted to
flee back from the real to the inner liveliness.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Follow my timeline for posts and quotes on German Idealism and its context.
flee back from the real to the inner liveliness.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Follow my timeline for posts and quotes on German Idealism and its context.
Read a short CV of me and an outline of my philosophy at the Publicity page of the Philosophy of Happiness website referenced in my profile. Access all my work there free of charge. And please tell others about this resource. I'd much appreciate your reposting. Thank you!
December 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Read a short CV of me and an outline of my philosophy at the Publicity page of the Philosophy of Happiness website referenced in my profile. Access all my work there free of charge. And please tell others about this resource. I'd much appreciate your reposting. Thank you!
he immediately assumed
something was wrong
with her
to address a man
like him
he would protect himself
by showing her
how undeserving he was
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 2.
Visit Knowing tab of site in profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry
something was wrong
with her
to address a man
like him
he would protect himself
by showing her
how undeserving he was
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 2.
Visit Knowing tab of site in profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry
December 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
he immediately assumed
something was wrong
with her
to address a man
like him
he would protect himself
by showing her
how undeserving he was
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 2.
Visit Knowing tab of site in profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry
something was wrong
with her
to address a man
like him
he would protect himself
by showing her
how undeserving he was
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 2.
Visit Knowing tab of site in profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry
"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"
Henry David Thoreau
Follow my timeline for a curated collection of practical philosophy quotes. For more on building a philosophy of life, visit the website in my profile.
Henry David Thoreau
Follow my timeline for a curated collection of practical philosophy quotes. For more on building a philosophy of life, visit the website in my profile.
December 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"
Henry David Thoreau
Follow my timeline for a curated collection of practical philosophy quotes. For more on building a philosophy of life, visit the website in my profile.
Henry David Thoreau
Follow my timeline for a curated collection of practical philosophy quotes. For more on building a philosophy of life, visit the website in my profile.
I know I ask too much of Western Philosophy. It is unfit to continue traditions of guidance, counsel, and conscience. Still, its incompetence is self-inflicted, and it caused and allowed rampant decay of ethics, justice, and good will. Its treason of purpose deserves elimination.
December 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I know I ask too much of Western Philosophy. It is unfit to continue traditions of guidance, counsel, and conscience. Still, its incompetence is self-inflicted, and it caused and allowed rampant decay of ethics, justice, and good will. Its treason of purpose deserves elimination.
I recommend in my "Philosophy of Happiness" book that people reconnect with their childhood/adolescent self to rediscover and revive precious aspects that subsequently got muffled or muted. For me, this is creating music. My first love that I gave up for "more serious pursuits".
December 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I recommend in my "Philosophy of Happiness" book that people reconnect with their childhood/adolescent self to rediscover and revive precious aspects that subsequently got muffled or muted. For me, this is creating music. My first love that I gave up for "more serious pursuits".
if we refuse to follow our dreams
we must fight them haunting us back
they seep into each unchecked crack
bursting us at the seams
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 6.
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#poetry
we must fight them haunting us back
they seep into each unchecked crack
bursting us at the seams
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 6.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry
December 1, 2025 at 5:03 AM
if we refuse to follow our dreams
we must fight them haunting us back
they seep into each unchecked crack
bursting us at the seams
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 6.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry
we must fight them haunting us back
they seep into each unchecked crack
bursting us at the seams
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 6.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry
A popular misconception by #philosophy academics is that writing in general periodicals makes them public philosophers. But I have yet to see one capable or even trying to address normal human concerns. Their topics are usually about THEIR interests and eccentric takes. Mememe!!
December 1, 2025 at 3:03 AM
A popular misconception by #philosophy academics is that writing in general periodicals makes them public philosophers. But I have yet to see one capable or even trying to address normal human concerns. Their topics are usually about THEIR interests and eccentric takes. Mememe!!
Combine as many metaphors as you can in one post.
I go first: The bubbles in which Humanities colleagues live and make their living may have different schedules to burst. But the writing is on the wall. And they refuse to read it until the gravy train stops.
I go first: The bubbles in which Humanities colleagues live and make their living may have different schedules to burst. But the writing is on the wall. And they refuse to read it until the gravy train stops.
December 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Combine as many metaphors as you can in one post.
I go first: The bubbles in which Humanities colleagues live and make their living may have different schedules to burst. But the writing is on the wall. And they refuse to read it until the gravy train stops.
I go first: The bubbles in which Humanities colleagues live and make their living may have different schedules to burst. But the writing is on the wall. And they refuse to read it until the gravy train stops.
you can paint
say sing scream all you want
the world's moved on
to prepackaged confections
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 4.
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#poetry
say sing scream all you want
the world's moved on
to prepackaged confections
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 4.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry
November 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
you can paint
say sing scream all you want
the world's moved on
to prepackaged confections
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 4.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry
say sing scream all you want
the world's moved on
to prepackaged confections
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 4.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry
"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others."
Albert Schweitzer
Follow my timeline for a curated collection of practical philosophy #quotes. For more on building a philosophy of life, visit the website in my profile.
Albert Schweitzer
Follow my timeline for a curated collection of practical philosophy #quotes. For more on building a philosophy of life, visit the website in my profile.
November 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others."
Albert Schweitzer
Follow my timeline for a curated collection of practical philosophy #quotes. For more on building a philosophy of life, visit the website in my profile.
Albert Schweitzer
Follow my timeline for a curated collection of practical philosophy #quotes. For more on building a philosophy of life, visit the website in my profile.
I do not completely disappreciate Analytic Philosophy. Analysis has always been an essential mode for any serious philosopher's approach to knowledge. I just dislike the jingoistic, stilted pretense and prejudice in the Anglo tradition that is really the opposite of analytical.
November 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I do not completely disappreciate Analytic Philosophy. Analysis has always been an essential mode for any serious philosopher's approach to knowledge. I just dislike the jingoistic, stilted pretense and prejudice in the Anglo tradition that is really the opposite of analytical.
What can save professional philosophy from irrelevance? Maybe speaking truth to those who need to hear it and not letting them or anybody else intimidate us would be a good start.
November 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
What can save professional philosophy from irrelevance? Maybe speaking truth to those who need to hear it and not letting them or anybody else intimidate us would be a good start.
The less we can rely on our surroundings being ordered by considered judgment, cooperation, and respect, the more we have to become aware individually of a philosophical footing on which we intend to run our life and seek out others who will join us. Visit the site in my profile.
November 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The less we can rely on our surroundings being ordered by considered judgment, cooperation, and respect, the more we have to become aware individually of a philosophical footing on which we intend to run our life and seek out others who will join us. Visit the site in my profile.
ultimate wildness
ultimate calm
both i experience with you
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 2.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry
ultimate calm
both i experience with you
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 2.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry
November 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
ultimate wildness
ultimate calm
both i experience with you
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 2.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry
ultimate calm
both i experience with you
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 2.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry
Many philosophy scholars are not philosophers, but merely trying to comprehend and explain what philosophers have conceived.
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 1.
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#quote
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 1.
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#quote
November 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Many philosophy scholars are not philosophers, but merely trying to comprehend and explain what philosophers have conceived.
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 1.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#quote
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 1.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
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#quote
I think the claim that philosophy is beyond science is a tragicomical cop-out from doing useful work. And this attitude is quickly becoming societally unacceptable. See Section 7.4 of my article below. philpapers.org/rec/JANSPA-3
November 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I think the claim that philosophy is beyond science is a tragicomical cop-out from doing useful work. And this attitude is quickly becoming societally unacceptable. See Section 7.4 of my article below. philpapers.org/rec/JANSPA-3
Philosophy is a living, or rather dying, paradox. It chews the same old mash without end and dissects most petty and absurd propositions. All while thousands of serious problems plague humanity. Not even attempting to resolve these ills displays a deep-seated social disorder.
November 30, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Philosophy is a living, or rather dying, paradox. It chews the same old mash without end and dissects most petty and absurd propositions. All while thousands of serious problems plague humanity. Not even attempting to resolve these ills displays a deep-seated social disorder.
years for her
to tell she loved him
many more in a fight to forget
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 5.
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#poetry
to tell she loved him
many more in a fight to forget
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 5.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry
November 30, 2025 at 5:03 AM
years for her
to tell she loved him
many more in a fight to forget
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 5.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry
to tell she loved him
many more in a fight to forget
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 5.
Visit Knowing tab of site in my profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry
people he knows
walk by like ghosts
they look right through him
or fake not to see
he lives in the past
before he was cast
not useful anymore
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes & poems, Book 4.
Visit Knowing tab of site in profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry
walk by like ghosts
they look right through him
or fake not to see
he lives in the past
before he was cast
not useful anymore
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes & poems, Book 4.
Visit Knowing tab of site in profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry
November 30, 2025 at 3:03 AM
people he knows
walk by like ghosts
they look right through him
or fake not to see
he lives in the past
before he was cast
not useful anymore
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes & poems, Book 4.
Visit Knowing tab of site in profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry
walk by like ghosts
they look right through him
or fake not to see
he lives in the past
before he was cast
not useful anymore
“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes & poems, Book 4.
Visit Knowing tab of site in profile.
Follow my timeline for excerpts.
#poetry