Chaim Bryski
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Chaim Bryski
The great problem of consciousness is that all it knows is itself, and only dimly. We can override this elemental self-reference only with constant vigilance, reminding ourselves again and again as we forget over and over how difficult it is — how nigh impossible — to know what it is like to be anybody else. It does not come naturally to us, this... See more
Maria Popova • How to Love Yourself and How to Love Another: A Playful and Poignant Vintage Illustrated Fable About Cherishing the Particular
Love
In a world of fugitives
The person taking the opposite direction
Will appear to run away.
T.S. Eliot • The Family Reunion
Here is a very big place and the only place ... where you can never feel lonely, not really.
Sarah Jacoby • The Coziest Place on the Moon
And I thought about how love is simply the solitary light between people, neither partitioned nor merged but shared, to light up the sliver of spacetime we have each been allotted before returning our borrowed stardust to the universe.
Sarah Jacoby • The Coziest Place on the Moon
Author: Maria Popova
And everybody knows that there is no better place to feel happy-alone than in a cave. Which is also the best place to read a book. Which is also a kind of cave.
Sarah Jacoby • The Coziest Place on the Moon
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
“But this is how it is — — —,” I say to myself over and over again. . . . One thinks that one is tracing nature over and over again, and one is merely tracing round the frame through which we look at it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein • Philosophical Investigations §§113–14
Preconception and
A picture held us captive. And we couldn’t get outside it, for it lay in our language, and language seemed only to repeat it to us inexorably.
Language and