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“I can discover something in the universe, but if I didn’t do it, somebody else after me will discover that exact same thing. Whereas in the arts, what you create, no one who was ever born before you or will be born from your death onwards will ever compose exactly the same thing you did. So in that sense art is a unique expression of the individua... See more
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“Maryanne Wolf introduces a subtle but urgent concept into the discourse on reading: cognitive patience. It is, at heart, the willingness to linger in difficulty. The capacity to stay with a complex sentence, a knotty idea, a layered argument long enough for meaning to emerge. This kind of patience was once cultivated by the reading of dense, synta... See more
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‘Ultra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us’ by Carl Hendrick
“To read slowly, attentively, without agenda or distraction is to resist. Not with noise or spectacle, but with the quiet, deliberate force of contemplation. In an economy built on speed and stimulus, deep reading becomes an act of principled refusal. It defies the algorithm’s logic of efficiency, the newsfeed’s velocity, the platform’s hunger for ... See more
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‘Ultra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us’ by Carl Hendrick
“After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips”
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Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
“The more he forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is and the more he actualises himself”
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Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
“The truth - that love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire... the salvation of man is through love and in love”
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Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
“For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself”
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Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
“If instead of going backwards in time, I were to go forward in time, to my death and beyond, the atoms in my body will remain, only they will be scattered about. Those atoms will not know where they came from, but they will have been mine. Some of them will have been part of the memory of my mother dancing the bossa nova. Some will once have been ... See more
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From The Transcendent Brain - Atlantic Article
“The subtext of most self help is to isolate yourself and work on yourself so that one day people will like you and you’ll be successful. They say improve your mindset, build your skills, clean your room... the rich sad person... there are systems in place in society that keep people miserable, so self improvement only goes so far, but I don’t hear... See more