Reads tagged with “psychology”
Sylvia Plath on Free Will, the Pillars of Personhood, and What Makes Us Who We Are
“I: how firm a letter; how reassuring the three strokes: one vertical, proud and assertive, and then the two short horizontal lines in quick, smug succession.”
Kafka on Love and Patience
“Patience is the master key to every situation. One must have sympathy for everything, surrender to everything, but at the same time remain patient and forbearing.”
Telling Is Listening: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Magic of Real Human Conversation
“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.”
Nietzsche on the Journey of Becoming and What It Means to Be a Free Spirit
“…become master over yourself, master of your own good qualities… acquire power over your aye and no and learn to hold and withhold them in accordance with your higher aims…”
The Gentle Giant: Oliver Sacks and the Art of Choosing Empathy Over Vengeance
An existential lesson gleaned from a brush with death and foolishness.
David Hume on Human Nature, the Myth of Selfishness, and Why Vanity Is Proof of Virtue Rather Than Vice
“To love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable actions for their own sake [that] it is almost impossible to have the latter without some degree of the former.”
Ben Hecht on Greatness, the Radiance of Realness, and the Rewards of Keeping in Touch with the Soul of Your Childhood
On the crucial difference between superficial success and true greatness.
Trailblazing Astronomer Vera Rubin on Obsessiveness, Minimizing Obstacles, and How the Thrill of Accidental Discovery Redeems the Terror of Uncertainty
Why all creative endeavor is a matter of “getting hung up on little interesting things.”
Hannah Arendt on Being vs. Appearing and Our Impulse for Self-Display
“Nothing and nobody exists in this world whose very being does not presuppose a spectator.”
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