* WISDOM
Speak the truth and everybody gon' hate you…Unless it's funny. - Childish Gambino
Quotes Collection
Stoics are to be vigilant against unreasoned thoughts popping up in their heads.
Andrii Datsenko • The Stoic Warrior. 45 Maxims for Life From Marcus Aurelius' Meditations
THE TRUTH MUST DAZZLE GRADUALLY
OR EVERY MAN BE BLIND
— Emily Dickinson
Simon Sarris • Long Distance Thinking
Love this metaphor.
Incongruity
Incongruity refers to the lack of harmony, consistency, or appropriateness between elements that are placed together. It’s the quality of being out of place, mismatched, or incompatible with the surrounding context.
The concept appears across many domains:
In humor theory, incongruity is fundamental to comedy. We laugh when expectations ar
... See more“It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.” —Richard Cavett
Morgan Housel • Makes You Think
The opposite of communion is also useful to me. When I am with others, when I read books, when I look at Twitter—I feel like a dam filling with water, with potential energy. But it is usually not until I spend a long time alone in my head that it turns into kinetic energy.
Henrik Karlsson • On Having More Interesting Ideas
