It was said by many people about the elder Zossima that, by permitting everyone for so many years to come to bare their hearts and beg his advice and healing words, he had absorbed so many secrets, sorrows, and avowals into his soul that in the end he had acquired so fine a perception that he could tell at the first glance from the face of a stranger what he had come for, what he wanted and what kind of torment racked his conscience.
- The Brothers Karamazov
- The Brothers Karamazov
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It was said by many people about the elder Zossima that, by permitting everyone for so many years to come to bare their hearts and beg his advice and healing words, he had absorbed so many secrets, sorrows, and avowals into his soul that in the end he had…
Such people (like Zossima), Wittgenstein suggests, have more to teach us about understanding ourselves and other people than the experimental methods of the modern-day ‘science’ of psychology. This is not because the science is undeveloped but because the methods it employs are inappropriate to its task:
The confusion and barrenness of psychology is not to be explained by calling it a ‘young science’; its state is not comparable with that of physics, for instance, in its beginnings. For in psychology there are experimental methods and conceptual confusion.
- The Duty Of Genius (a biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein)
The confusion and barrenness of psychology is not to be explained by calling it a ‘young science’; its state is not comparable with that of physics, for instance, in its beginnings. For in psychology there are experimental methods and conceptual confusion.
- The Duty Of Genius (a biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein)
When told by Dr. Bevan that he would live only a few more days, he exclaimed ‘Good!’
Mrs Bevan stayed with him that night, and told him that his close friends in England would be coming the next day. Before losing consciousness he said to her: ‘Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life.’
- Wittgenstein's last words
Mrs Bevan stayed with him that night, and told him that his close friends in England would be coming the next day. Before losing consciousness he said to her: ‘Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life.’
- Wittgenstein's last words
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😂😂😂😂😂not anymore, sadly
خلصت سيرته، لازم أشوفلي شي ثاني هسة
خلصت سيرته، لازم أشوفلي شي ثاني هسة
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Right-left conflict is escalating quickly...
اليمين واصلين مرحلة بالإبداع والـ shitpost😂
They're turning it into a "tradition"
They're turning it into a "tradition"
On the instinct for language
When you are learning to play music or to paint, at some point you develop the so-called musical ear, and painter's eye, in which you can play and paint intuitively without the need to think hard before every move or brush stroke. The same happens when you learn a language: you develop a taste, a feel, and an instinct for the language. The pattern of the sentence and the meaning of the words reveal themselves intuitively.
When you are learning to play music or to paint, at some point you develop the so-called musical ear, and painter's eye, in which you can play and paint intuitively without the need to think hard before every move or brush stroke. The same happens when you learn a language: you develop a taste, a feel, and an instinct for the language. The pattern of the sentence and the meaning of the words reveal themselves intuitively.
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On the instinct for language When you are learning to play music or to paint, at some point you develop the so-called musical ear, and painter's eye, in which you can play and paint intuitively without the need to think hard before every move or brush stroke.…
This happened to me yesterday: I was trying to remember the German word for "face/Gesicht" but I could only remember "Gehirn/brain" because they all sound the same to me, because I don't yet have this "instinct" for German :")