#gen

You never get over it. But you get to where it doesn't bother you so much. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#the-virgin-suicides #you-never-get-over-it #suicide

I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#genius #misunderstood #genius

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#self-examination #genius

There's a thin line between genius and bottom-barrel stupidness. I hover delicately on a tightrope between the two, wondering where I'll land if I'll ever fall. ↗

— Suzanne Crowley

#stupidity #wisdom #genius

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success ↗

— Ian Fleming

#genius

All geniuses die young. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#genius #young #genius

A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#genius

Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#reading #genius

We can have all the food and water we need, but without the sustenance of real story, real art — without the wisdom, insight, and “life instruction” it brings — we will stagnate as a culture and become a swamp where quality life can no longer be sustained. So share your gifts! Share your art! ↗

— Derek Rydall

#emergence #law-of-emergence #selfhelp #spirituality #art

In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: Did the universe have a beginning? However, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, science became too technical and mathematical for the philosophers, or anyone else except a few specialists. Philosophers reduced the scope of their inquiries so much that Wittgenstein, the most famous philosopher of this century, said, "The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language." What a comedown from the great tradition of philosophy from Aristotle to Kant! ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#science #wittgenstein #science