Psyche

And They Lived Happily Ever After as Friends: What Can We Say About Non-Romantic Love?

Marge (Frances McDormand) and Norm (John Carroll Lynch) in Fargo, dir. Joel and Ethan Coen // Gramercy Pictures / Getty Images

Loves me, likes me, respects me: love has many faces, and perhaps it's the unassuming second line of that daisy rhyme that holds the key to lasting happiness.

By Olga Drenda

"The most important thing is to like each other" — this recipe for a successful life together can sometimes be heard from couples celebrating impressive anniversaries. Simple and practical, but — as it turns out — also intuitively philosophical. These seniors are expressing, in their own words, the same thought Friedrich Nietzsche once articulated.

Nietzsche Had a Recipe for a Good Relationship

The philosopher known in the popular imagination for his misogynistic aphorisms — with which every young misanthrope likes to show off — also wrote memorable lines in praise of genuine partnership between husband and wife. For this is precisely what his vision of friendship as a solid foundation for love amounts to: a relationship in which the partners don't bore each other and always have something to talk about.

Who Taught the Poles to Cook? Queen Bona, Victim of a Smear Campaign

We will never find out who introduced us to włoszczyzna. But we can answer a different question: why did Bona, of all people, become the face of changing manners and eating habits? By Paweł Bravo "Splitting a single pea four ways is not for me. The whole of nouvelle

From the First Lullaby to an Algorithmic Mozart: Why Do We Listen to Music?

The Discreet Charm of the Apocalypse: Where Does Climate Activists' Radicalism Come From?

We are seeing a mechanism in which the label of eco-terrorism is being applied to acts of civil disobedience. This is language characteristic of moral panic. By Dominika Soszyńska and Przemysław Pluciński Dominika Soszyńska: One of the most visible spaces of young people's engagement today is climate

Ryszard Koziołek on Tokarczuk's New Novel: Poland as a Bomb Hole

At first I was ashamed to find myself enjoying a novel with so much death and trauma in it. Soon, I was ashamed of my shame. What have we done to ourselves, that we no longer know how to play with literature? By Ryszard Koziołek Imagine three outstanding books lying