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- E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/09/25/e-e-cummings-advice/ 33 comments
- Buddhist Economics: How to Start Prioritizing People Over Products and Creativity Over Consumption: Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure. https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/07/07/buddhist-economics-schumacher/ 149 comments philosophy
- Truth, Justice, and Public Good: Simone Weil on Political Manipulation, the Dangers of “For” and “Against,” and How to Save Thinking from Opinion: "One must always endeavour strenuously to protect one’s inner faculty of judgment against the turmoil of personal hopes and fears." https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/31/simone-weil-abolition-of-all-political-parties/ 87 comments philosophy
- How to Be Alone: An Antidote to One of the Central Anxieties and Greatest Paradoxes of Our Time “We live in a society which sees high self-esteem as a proof of well-being, but we do not want to be intimate with this admirable and desirable person.” https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/03/how-to-be-alone-school-of-life/ 14 comments philosophy
- Neil Gaiman Reads Ursula K. Le Guin’s Ode to Timelessness to His 100-Year-Old Cousin https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/01/08/neil-gaiman-reads-ursula-k-le-guin/?fbclid=IwAR0Wg834pR8qNtV6TXxTySDRWn14_WDz_wP53qQ3lrVWWqc90kZNv6ynnOg 14 comments books
- Philosopher Martin Buber on Love and What It Means to Live in the Present https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/07/24/martin-buber-i-thou-love/ 29 comments philosophy
- Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to His Abusive and Narcissistic Father https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/05/franz-kafka-letter-father/ 18 comments books
- The Best Children’s Books of 2016 https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/12/12/the-best-childrens-books-of-2016/?utm_source=Brain+Pickings&utm_campaign=0056b0cc14-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_179ffa2629-0056b0cc14-238007097&mc_cid=0056b0cc14&mc_eid=a9431e507c 3 comments books
- The Greatest Science Books of 2016 https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/12/07/best-science-books-2016/?utm_source=Brain+Pickings&utm_campaign=5a6276d7b2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_179ffa2629-5a6276d7b2-238007097&mc_cid=5a6276d7b2&mc_eid=a9431e507c 3 comments books
- Hunter S. Thompson’s Superb Advice on How to Find Your Purpose and Live a Meaningful Life. https://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/04/hunter-s-thomspon-letters-of-note-advice/ 487 comments books
- Kurt Vonnegut’s Life-Advice to His Children: Educate yourself, welcome life’s messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs. https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/11/11/kurt-vonnegut-advice-to-children/ 30 comments books
- How Leo Tolstoy Found His Purpose: The Beloved Author on Personal Growth and the Meaning of Human Existence https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/05/16/leo-tolstoy-purpose-diaries-youth/ 14 comments books
- Kafka on Taoism, the Nature of Reality, and the Truth of Human Life: “Reality is never and nowhere more accessible than in the immediate moment of one’s own life. It’s only there that it can be won or lost.” https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/18/conversations-with-kafka-taoism-truth/ 153 comments philosophy
- Leo Tolstoy on Finding Meaning in a Meaningless World [x-post from /r/books] https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/06/03/tolstoy-confession/ 45 comments philosophy
- Ursula K. Le Guin on the Sacredness of Public Libraries https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/06/ursula-k-le-guin-libraries/ 7 comments books
- A List of Don’ts for Women on Bicycles Circa 1895 http://www.brainpickings.org/2012/01/03/donts-for-women-on-bicycles-1895/ 36 comments bicycling
- What Is Love? Famous Definitions from 400 Years of Literary History http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/01/what-is-love/ 11 comments books
- Joseph Brodsky on How to Develop Your Taste in Reading http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/02/17/joseph-brodsky-how-to-read-a-book/?utm_content=buffer5a75e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer 6 comments books
- Kierkegaard on Boredom, Why Cat Listicles Fail to Answer the Soul’s Cry, and the Only True Cure for Existential Emptiness http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/14/kierkegaard-boredom-idleness-either-or/ 34 comments philosophy
- Joan Didion’s Favorite Books of All Time, in a Handwritten Reading List http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/06/joan-didion-favorite-books-reading-list/ 3 comments books
- Dostoyevsky on Why There Are No Bad People http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/12/02/dostoyevsky-good-fellows/ 7 comments books
- Kurt Vonnegut’s Advice to His Children http://www.brainpickings.org/2013/11/11/kurt-vonnegut-advice-to-children/ 3 comments books
- The Greatest Books of All Time, As Voted by 125 Famous Authors http://www.brainpickings.org/2012/01/30/writers-top-ten-favorite-books 372 comments books
- Why Emotional Excess is Essential to Writing and Creativity - “Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.” -- Anais Nin http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/03/anais-nin-on-emotion-and-writing/ 6 comments books
- R. Crumb Illustrates Bukowski http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/10/08/r-crumb-illustrates-bukowski/ 90 comments books
- How the Universe Works: Stephen Hawking’s Theory of Everything, Animated in 150 Seconds http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/09/25/stephen-hawking-made-simple-animation/ 5 comments science
- "Oh, My Hand": Complaints Medieval Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/03/21/monk-complaints-manuscripts/ 3 comments history
- When Einstein Met Tagore http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/04/27/when-einstein-met-tagore/?utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=buffer&utm_content=buffer8fa5f&utm_medium=twitter 53 comments philosophy
- George Bernard Shaw on Marriage, the Oppression of Women, and the Hypocrisies of Monogamy http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/07/26/george-bernard-shaw-on-marriage/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+brainpickings%2Frss+%28brain+pickings%29 45 comments philosophy
- The planets and their moons, based on what 1953 knew about space http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/04/18/the-first-book-of-space-travel-jeanne-bendick/ 4 comments space
- Happy birthday, Galileo: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/02/15/galileo-letter-to-duchess-of-tuscany/ 6 comments science
- No decent woman or girl is ever seen on a bicycle; No decent woman or girl is ever seen wearing trousers - "Code of conduct for local life in rural Spain" from July 1943. http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/10/17/1943-iberia-women-list/ 4 comments history
- How Consciousness Evolved and Why a Planetary "Übermind" Is Inevitable http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/30/consciousness-christof-koch/ 13 comments cogsci
- "This means that your chance of dreaming at any given moment is 1 in 10...So there is a significant chance of you dreaming right now." Am I missing something or is there an awful use of logic here? http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/07/25/reality-a-very-short-introduction/ 27 comments philosophy
- Which of these beautifully illustrated children's books are your faves? http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/11/21/best-childrens-books-2011/ 7 comments books
- There is an edition of "Alice in Wonderland" illustrated by Salvador Dali http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/11/15/salvador-dali-alice-in-wonderland-1969/ 17 comments books
- Pixar animator rethinks Hindu mythology http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/10/27/the-little-book-of-hindu-deities-sanjay-patel/ 16 comments india
- Happy Birthday, John Locke: The Essential Locke in 3 Minutes http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/08/29/3-minute-philosophy-john-locke/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+brainpickings%2Frss+%28brain+pickings%29&utm_content=google+reader 11 comments philosophy
- Our brain’s tight fit to writing and speech is not because we evolved by natural selection to read or comprehend speech, but, rather, because the structure of writing and speech culturally evolved to fit our brain…by looking and sounding like nature, just what our brains can brilliantly process. http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/08/03/mark-changizi-harnessed/ 51 comments science
- Mike Wallace's 1959 interview with Ayn Rand http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/05/17/ayn-rand-mike-wallace-interview/ 13 comments history