The history of our species is the history of mistaking our labels and models of things for the things themselves.
Author: Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Thought | Inquiry, Thought Starters
I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, … [ Read more ]
Author: Leo Tolstoy | Subjects: Happiness, Thought Starters, Wisdom
This is what the contemporary self wants. It wants to be recognized, wants to be connected: It wants to be visible. […] If the property that grounded the self, in Romanticism, was sincerity, and in modernism it was authenticity, then in postmodernism it is visibility. So we live exclusively in relation to others, and what disappears from our lives is solitude. […] But no real … [ Read more ]
Author: William Deresiewics | Subjects: Insight, IT | Technology, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior, Thought Starters