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“Jim O’Shaughnessy and Vatsal Kaushik have distilled centuries of human insight into a collection that feels both profound and personal. In an era overwhelmed by noise, Two Thoughts serves as a quiet and profound sanctuary of timeless wisdom.”
– Rob Henderson
Sunday, 1 June
Two thoughts from Vishen Lakhiani
“We grow through discomfort or insight. But never through apathy.”
“When an old belief no longer serves you, you have every right to swap it out.”
Monday, 2 June
Two thoughts from Wisława Szymborska
“You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.”
“It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.”
Tuesday, 3 June
Two thoughts from Joseph Brodsky
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
“What we regard as Evil is capable of a fairly ubiquitous presence if only because it tends to appear in the guise of good.”
Wednesday, 4 June
Two thoughts from Danilo Kiš
"You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end."
"We carry around in our heads so many powerful impressions from books, and we usually end up forgetting exactly what books they came from."
Thursday, 5 June
Two thoughts from Paul Bourget
“There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.”
"At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered."
Friday, 6 June
Two thoughts from Ivan Goncharov
“It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.”
“It's hard and complicated to live simply!”
Saturday, 7 June
Two thoughts from Kurt Gödel
“The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.”
"All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false."
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Thank you.
Dear Jim,
Another great quote batch! Some of my faves from this one:
Wisława Szymborska:
“You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.”
Paul Bourget:
"At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered."
Ivan Goncharov:
“It's hard and complicated to live simply!”
Kurt Gödel:
“The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.”
"All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false."
Thank you for sharing as always!
Love
Myq