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The Marginalianby Maria Popova9d ago
The Dandelion and the Meaning of Life: G.K. Chesterton on How to Live in Wonder By Maria Popova There is a myth we live with, the myth of finding the meaning of life — as if meaning were an...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova9d ago
How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust By Maria Popova “The state of enchantment is one of...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova9d ago
Ocean of Stars: A Painted Poem About How to Bear the Astonishment of Life By Maria Popova Here we are, bewildered miracles of chemistry and chance, trembling embers of dead stars capable of sign...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova9d ago
The Common Language of Science: Einstein’s Clarion Call to Divided Humanity in a Rare 1941 Recording By Maria Popova What makes Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879–April 18, 1955) endure as “the...
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How to Say “YES” to Your Life By Maria Popova It started with an urn for living gone wrong, the clay kiltering off center, resisting my every effort to force it back into shape.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova10d ago
Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death By Maria Popova We are born into the certitude of our eventual death.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova11d ago
James Baldwin’s Advice on Writing By Maria Popova In 1989, Paris Review founding editor and trailblazing interviewer George Plimpton edited a wonderful collection titled The Writer’s Chapbook: A...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova11d ago
What Happens When We Die By Maria Popova When my atheist engineer grandfather died, my atheist engineer grandmother leaned over the body in the hospice bed that had contained half a century of...
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David Bowie Answers the Famous Proust Questionnaire By Maria Popova In the 1880s, long before he claimed his status as one of the greatest authors of all time, teenage Marcel Proust (July 10...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova12d ago
C.S. Lewis on How to Structure the Days of a Creative Life and Train the Receptive Imagination By Maria Popova There are, in my experience, two fundaments of the creative life: putting yourself...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova13d ago
Inner Space, Outer Space, and How to Be an Astronaut in the Cosmos of Connection: Eric Berne on the Key to True Intimacy By Maria Popova We move among surfaces.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova13d ago
Orcas and the Price of Consciousness: Lessons in Love and Loss from Earth’s Most Successful and Creative Predator By Maria Popova Marbling the waters of every ocean with their billows of black and...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova13d ago
Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness By Maria Popova In my darkest hours, what has saved me again and again is some action of unselfing — some instinctive wakefulness to an aspect of the...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova14d ago
The Weasel and the Meaning of It All: Annie Dillard on How to Live By Maria Popova Suppose we answer the most important question of existence in the affirmative.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova15d ago
Hermann Hesse on Discovering the Soul Beneath the Self and the Key to Finding Peace By Maria Popova “To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you...
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How to Handle a Narcissistic and Abusive Parent: Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to Father By Maria Popova Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883–June 3, 1924) was one of history’s most prolific and expressive...
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How to Speak Forest By Maria Popova “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way,” William Blake wrote in his most passionate...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova16d ago
Nietzsche on How to Find Yourself and the True Value of Education By Maria Popova “Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?” Elizabeth Gilbert asked in...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova17d ago
How to Fall in Love Better: A Field Guide to Enlightened Enchantment By Maria Popova Enchantment, J.R.R.
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Emerson on How to Trust Yourself By Maria Popova “I felt down in my soul the clear and unmistakable conviction to disobey all, and pursue my own way,” the young Whitman wrote of his momentous...
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