intelligence
It is a great mistake to confuse physical strength, dominance, violence, vulgarity, or brutality with masculinity. Masculinity is emotional stability, undaunted integrity, quiet courage, humility, generosity, and capacity for enduring love, or it is nothing.
Dee Hock • Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition Volume 1
At its core, intelligence can be viewed as a process that converts unstructured information into useful and actionable knowledge.
Stanislas Dehaene • How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
intelligence is not something which exists, but something one does; it is active, interpersonal and generative, and it manifests when we think and act.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Nowadays everybody is so scared of life and of risk and of anything that comes from it, that we've developed brittle shells around ourselves which make us rather lonely beings.
— Iain McGilchrist, The Matter with Things Dialogues Episode 20 [YouTube]
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quirine brouwer • all my friends and i talk about is getting rid of our phones
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“Children don’t see the world, don’t observe the world, don’t contemplate the world, but are so deeply immersed in the world that they don’t distinguish between it and their own selves.” - Karl Ove Knausgaard, Autumn
Tom Critchlow • LF:13 Family Futures
We don’t give other people credit for the same interior complexity we take for granted in ourselves, the same capacity for holding contradictory feelings in balance, for complexly alloyed affections, for bottomless generosity of heart and petty, capricious malice. We can’t believe that anyone could be unkind to us and still be genuinely fond of us,... See more