Schopenhauer’s Parable about Negotiating the Optimal Distance in Love – The Marginalian
By Maria Popova This is the supreme challenge of intimacy — how to reconcile the aching yearning for closeness with […]
Non-Speaking Autistic Poet Hannah Emerson’s Extraordinary Poem About How to Be Reborn Each Day – The Marginalian
In their strange cosmogony predating Copernicus by two millennia, the ancient Greek scientific sect of the Pythagoreans placed at the
Attention as an Instrument of Love – The Marginalian
Whatever fundamental reality might exist, we live out our lives in a subjective reality defined by what we agree to
How the Clouds Got Their Names and How Goethe Popularized Them with His Science-Inspired Poems – The Marginalian
If I should ever cease to be amazed and enraptured by the magic of clouds, I should wish myself dead.
Alain de Botton on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind – The Marginalian
“The mind is its own place, and in it self can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n,”
The Contemplative Cartoonist Grant Snider’s Illustrated Love Letter to Noticing and Manifesto for Self-Liberation from Striving – The Marginalian
“The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time,” Montaigne wrote half
A Blind Hero of the French Resistance on Seeing the Heart of Life and Contacting the Oneness of Being – The Marginalian
“To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time,” Georgia O’Keeffe wrote as she contemplated the art of
Octavio Paz on Freedom – The Marginalian
“Nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom,” James Baldwin admonished as he considered how we imprison ourselves,
Nikola Tesla on Gender Equality and How Technology Will Unleash Women’s True Potential – The Marginalian
Engineer, physicist, and futurist Nikola Tesla (July 10, 1856–January 7, 1943) is among the most radical rule-breakers of science and