Reads tagged with “psychology”
15-Year-Old Susan Sontag on the Explosive Elasticity of the Self
“All that animates me and is the original and responsive desire that constitutes my ‘self’ — all this takes on a definite shape and size — far too large to be contained by the structure I call my body.”
Anatomy of Deception and Self-Delusion: Walter Lippmann on Public Opinion, Our Slippery Grasp of Truth, and the Discipline of Apprehending Reality Clearly
“If the connection between reality and human response were direct and immediate, rather than indirect and inferred, indecision and failure would be unknown.”
How to Rewire Your Broken Behavioral Patterns: Shakespeare’s Advice on Acquiring Better Habits
“Assume a virtue, if you have it not.”
Hermann Hesse on Solitude, the Value of Hardship, the Courage to Be Yourself, and How to Find Your Destiny
“Solitude is not chosen, any more than destiny is chosen. Solitude comes to us if we have within us the magic stone that attracts destiny.”
The Art-Science of Perspective: How an Innovation in Figurative Drawing Powered Galileo’s Astronomical Revolution
A journey from the farthest cosmic horizons of reality to the depths of our poetic truth.
Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss
“Fearlessness is what love seeks… Such fearlessness exists only in the complete calm that can no longer be shaken by events expected of the future… Hence the only valid tense is the present, the Now.”
Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Love and Resisting the Tyranny of Relationship Labels
“We name mostly in order to control but what is worth loving does not want to be held within the bounds of too narrow a calling. In many ways love has already named us before we can even begin to speak back to it.”
The Influence of Physical Causes Upon the Moral Faculty: How Founding Father Benjamin Rush Revolutionized Our Understanding of Mental Health
“How wonderful is the action of the mind upon the body! Of the body upon the mind!”
How to Keep Criticism from Sinking Your Soul: Walt Whitman and the Discipline of Creative Confidence
“I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood.”
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