Deep Thoughts
We are poor indeed if we are only sane.
—D. W. Winnicott (English Psychoanalyst)
The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and interest. It’s not about the formal credentials. It’s fundamentally about play.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'Wow! What a Ride!' — Hunter S. Thompson
Hope sustains life. Hope is the elixir of survival during our darkest times. The ability to envision and imagine a brighter day gives meaning to our suffering and renders it bearable. When we lose hope, we lose our central source of strength and resilience.
Mark Manson • Will
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Karma vs Schadenfreude — In essence, while karma is a broader spiritual concept about the consequences of actions, schadenfreude is a specific emotional response to others' misfortunes. The two can intersect when someone feels pleasure (schadenfreude) at what they perceive as karmic justice being served to another person.
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
—Lu Xun
We think in questions. If knowledge is a complex web inside the mind, each node is a question, and each connecting line the information you’ve picked up on the journey from node to node. The pursuit of knowledge is the accumulation of questions. They shape our identity as much by being asked as by being answered.
Sindhu Shivaprasad • Questions Are Desire Paths of Curiosity
You’re only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
— Robin Williams