Daniel Wentsch

Perhaps most of all, self grows through self-importance; its antidote is healthy humility. Being humble means being natural and unassuming, not being a doormat, ashamed, or inferior. It just means you’re not setting your self above others. Humility feels peaceful. You don’t have to work at impressing people, and no one is at odds with you for being

First, you have to get comfortable with the idea that your model will always be incomplete and partially wrong. Always. You could spend your entire life refining your understanding of how to write a novel, and you'd still learn more from writing one bad novel than from all that study. The territory is infinitely richer than any map can capture.

Manchmal wünschte ich, ich würde an Gott oder ans Walhalla oder an irgendeinen anderen Mist glauben, damit da nicht nichts außer ihrer Asche ist, aber das ist ja auch keine Lösung.

Sugar offers a hollow sweetness that one can easily detect through careful, attentive eating. If you slowly chew and taste an oversweetened food, you'll probably find it phony and dishonest. Indeed, refined sugar cheats the body, promising a bonanza of nutrition that is not there.

We are checking the news to keep the news from ourselves at bay; we are working on a project as an alternative to working on our psyches. What properly indicates addiction is not what someone is doing, but their way of doing it, and in particular their desire to avoid any encounter with certain sides of themselves. We are addicts whenever we

Meaning Systems

• 💡 Wittgenstein demonstrated that an evidentiary understanding of reality isn't enough.


• 💡 People create meaning systems with their communities.


• 💡 These meaning systems explain experiential reality.