Reads tagged with “letters”
Paul Gauguin’s Advice on Overcoming Rejection, Breaking Free of Public Opinion, and Staying True to Your Creative Vision
“One day, you will feel a joy in having resisted the temptation to hate, and there is truly intoxicating poetry in the goodness of him who has suffered.”
Hannah Arendt on Human Nature vs. Culture, What Equality Really Means, and How Our Language Confers Reality Upon Our Experience
“An experience makes its appearance only when it is being said. And unless it is said it is, so to speak, non-existent.”
The Trailblazing 18th-Century French Mathematician Émilie du Châtelet on Jealousy and the Metaphysics of Love
“It is the privilege of affection to see a friend in all the situations of his soul.”
Living and Loving Through Loss: Beautiful Letters of Consolation from Great Artists, Writers, and Scientists
Words of comfort and compassion from Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Rachel Carson, Charles Darwin, Alan Turing, Johannes Brahms, and Charles Dickens.
John Steinbeck on the Loneliness of Success and His Surprising Source of Self-Salvation
“The loneliness and discouragement… I can’t talk to anyone much about them or even admit having them because I now possess the things that the great majority of people think are the death of loneliness and discouragement.”
Beloved Lebanese-American Poet and Philosopher Kahlil Gibran on America, New York, and Jewishness
“America is far greater than what people think; her Destiny is strong and healthy and eager.”
Vincent van Gogh on the Psychological Rewards of Japanese Art
“You cannot study Japanese art … without becoming much gayer and happier.”
Einstein’s Remarkable Letter to a Grief-Stricken Father Who Had Just Lost His Son
A poignant perspective on “the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind.”
Atom, Archetype, and the Invention of Synchronicity: How Iconic Psychiatrist Carl Jung and Nobel-Winning Physicist Wolfgang Pauli Bridged Mind and Matter
Two of humanity’s greatest minds explore the parallels between spacetime and the psyche, the atomic nucleus and the self.
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