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Lawliet

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  • I think teenagers are driven crazy by the life they're made to lead. Teenage apprentices in the Renaissance were working dogs. Teenagers now are neurotic lapdogs. Their craziness is the craziness of the idle everywhere.
    Why Nerds are Unpopular
  • the rat term is “being agentic.”
    Lachlan Marvit
  • Quick test: give this book to your girlfriend. If she says, "it kind of sounds like you" then you're both in trouble.
    The Last Psychiatrist: Where Did The Title Come From?
  • in which case you are a perceptive girl.
    The Last Psychiatrist: Where Did The Title Come From?
  • You're thinking whether it is true that parents create the narcissism that plagues their children for the rest of their lives. Does that match your own experiences? You're trying to remember back to your own childhood.
    The Second Story Of Echo And Narcissus
  • As the night thickened around her, her muteness would seem irredeemably desolate. If the child came in, he would see her thin shape and bony shoulders, and stop, afraid. He is beginning to feel a lot of things. He is scarcely aware of his own existence, but this animal silence makes him want to cry with pain. He feels sorry for his mother; is this the same as loving her? She has never hugged or kissed him, for she wouldn’t know how. He stands a long time watching her. Feeling separate from her, he becomes conscious of her suffering. She does not hear him, for she is deaf. In a few moments, the…
    Between Yes and No Camus read, Between Yes and No Camus read free, Between Yes and No Camus read online
  • So make your own proverbs. Your own aphorisms. Acknowledge when you invoke a polemic by smiling like crazy. And live.
    self help jank - agniv sarkar
  • You simply agree with it or don’t, and which way you land depends on the life that you have lived.
    self help jank - agniv sarkar
  • , that he is giving you 25+ polemics that are all somewhat true in a vague sense and asking you to pick and choose the truest bits
    self help jank - agniv sarkar
  • Are these proverbs? Well, probably.
    self help jank - agniv sarkar
  • So, we like simple short excerpts because of their ease of remembrance (mnemonic structure), being self-reliant (no external context needed), and their moral authority
    self help jank - agniv sarkar
  • Why do you write a 1,000-page book if you can enlighten the world in a few words? A 1,000-page book, which has to explain what the world is about, perhaps cannot express as much as a single haiku can.
    self help jank - agniv sarkar
  • So, when we take excerpts from texts, we are boiling down life philosophies into their marketable slogans [1]. Existentialism is now existence precedes essence [2], Buddhism is now to lose all worldly desire. These are what are cited in proper academic papers with abandon [3]… But… that loses context!
    self help jank - agniv sarkar
  • sometimes neat formalization is its own reward.
    Probability for Philosophers - by Oak - Offhand Quibbles