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How to Hold Your Helplessness: Nobel Laureate Bertrand Russell’s Salve for the Anxiety of Overwhelm

A way of life cannot be successful so long as it is a mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
— Bertrand Russell

2w ago

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.

5mo ago

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How to Keep Criticism from Sinking Your Soul: Walt Whitman and the Discipline of Creative Confidence

each point of E.'s statement was unanswerable, no judge's charge ever more complete or convincing, I could never hear the points better put — and then I felt down in my soul the clear and unmistakable conviction to disobey all, and pursue my own way.

5mo ago

The purpose of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it on something solid.

7mo ago

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