Reads tagged with “letters”
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.
How the French Mathematician Sophie Germain Paved the Way for Women in Science and Endeavored to Save Gauss’s Life
“The taste for the abstract sciences in general and, above all, for the mysteries of numbers, is very rare… since the charms of this sublime science in all their beauty reveal themselves only to those who have the courage to fathom them.”
How to Know Yourself: Poet Laura Riding’s Extraordinary 1930 Letters to an 8-Year-Old Girl
“People who for some reason find it impossible to think about themselves, and so really be themselves, try to make up for not thinking with doing.”
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.”
Love Beyond Label: The Tender Letters of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms
“I would gladly write to you only by means of music, but I have things to say to you to-day which music could not express.”
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