“Andersen had the courage to write stories with unhappy endings. He didn’t believe that you should try to be good because it pays … but because evil stems from intellectual and emotiona… | Continue reading
“All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.” | Continue reading
“To lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking and cease to ask unanswerable questions [is to] lose not only the ability to produce those thought-things that we call works of art but also… | Continue reading
“Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not… No more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human h… | Continue reading
“This is an extraordinary time full of vital, transformative movements that could not be foreseen. It’s also a nightmarish time. Full engagement requires the ability to perceive both.&#… | Continue reading
“When there is communication without need for communication, merely so that someone may earn the social and intellectual prestige of becoming a priest of communication, the quality and commun… | Continue reading
How an unsung heroine established a new field of science and helped defeat the Nazis with pencil, paper, and perseverance. | Continue reading
“It is strange the way ideas come when they are needed.” | Continue reading
“It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.” | Continue reading
“That point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all.” | Continue reading
“No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life.” | Continue reading
How top-down attention, feedback loops, and daydreaming play into the science of success. | Continue reading
How to master the delicate dance of unconditional openness to the truth. | Continue reading
“There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.” | Continue reading
“There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” | Continue reading
From Medieval sword-fighters to Broca’s brains, or why the hand may hold the key to the link between creativity and mental illness. | Continue reading
A dive into some of the most thrilling unsolved questions of science. | Continue reading
“People must think, they must go on thinking, they must try to extend the boundaries of knowledge; yet they don’t sometimes even know where to start. You don’t know where the boundaries are, … | Continue reading
“Playing music is the brain’s equivalent of a full-body workout.” | Continue reading
“The Beyond, whatever it consists of, might not be nearly as far away or inaccessible as we think.” | Continue reading
“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.” | Continue reading
“We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message.” | Continue reading
“Modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lose it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine.” | Continue reading
Abiding insight into the aim of human existence from the man who revolutionized science and coined the word “philosopher.” | Continue reading
“Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity we once were?” | Continue reading
“The more one does the more one can do.” | Continue reading
“Just how charitable are you supposed to be when criticizing the views of an opponent?” | Continue reading