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I'm so sad we learned nothing from him, man

“Lord, during my time on earth i read Aquinas and Augustine and Liguori and-" “did you feed the hungry? did you clothe the poor? did you visit the sick?” “uhhhh…”

Beethoven has the hardest "fuck you" quote: "Prince, what you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am through my own labour. There are and will be thousands of princes. But there is only one Beethoven."

Love how he couldn’t predict isagi at all here Hugo biggest weakness to exploit is his belief in the destiny bull shit .

Nobel Prize winning physicist Paul Dirac on how he got good ideas

magnus carlsen: "i'm sorry guys. as long as i only get good positions with this stupid line, i'm going to play it. sorry for the lack of creativity. i'm... not a creative person. i realized that recently. or. it's been pointed out to me. i always thought i was. but turns out i'm not. i'm more of a... analytical type"

Met a guy who told me when he's depressed he fixes it by doing planks for 8 minutes.

Literally just having a delusional golden retriever mindset measurably changes outcomes and physiology. Sleep badly? Convince yourself you're well rested. Stressful day? Convince yourself it's fuel. Failed? Convince yourself it's useful data.

As someone who goes through this pipeline, Shit made me realize manga indeed is the greatest medium ever

Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue

When I read the Biography of Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank, the main thing that stuck out to me was that Dostoevsky, being middle class, was seen as beneath the other upper class writers because he was so devoutly religious. They made fun of him for it in the "sophisticated literary circles". It was seen as lower class, peasant behaviour to be truly Christian rather than just go through the motions for ritual/tradition at Christmas and Easter and they jeered and blasphemed among their friends without compunction. This is when I really started realising how our modern problems are not so modern after all.

Leon Maxime Faivre - Two Mothers (1888)

basically

Aristotle vibe check from 2,300 years ago

“It is surprising how much reading a man can do in time usually wasted.” - Theodore Roosevelt “While Roosevelt was police commissioner in New York, a journalist visiting his office observed him instantly pick up a book on Sioux Indian culture in the few moments between one meeting ending and the next beginning. He read a page or two before the next visitor arrived, astonishing the reporter with his efficiency” - The Bully Pulpit, Doris Kearns Goodwin

we live on a planet where trees warn each other of danger through underground networks. where octopuses dream. where elephants return to the bones of their dead and stand over them in silence. where bees communicate through dance, showing each other where to fly. where flowers bloom...where crows remember human faces -especially those who were cruel to them - and pass that memory on to their young. where ants build entire cities. where cats purr at a frequency that can help heal bones. where forests, after fires, grow flowers first.

discipline makes you good enough. obsession makes you unstoppable.