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Maria Popova Quote: “Throughout life, our habits, beliefs, and ideas evolve beyond recognition. Our physical and social environments change. Almost all of our cells are replaced. Yet we remain, to ourselves, “who” “we” “are.”

51. “Throughout life, our habits, beliefs, and ideas evolve beyond recognition. Our physical and social environments change. Almost all of our cells are replaced. Yet we remain, to ourselves, “who” “we” “are.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “Nobody was talking about this moral dimension of science. Nobody was placing a hand on humanity’s shoulder and turning us away from this destructive hubris, shaking us into awareness, into humility, into wakefulness to the fragility of a miraculous world that flourished long before we trampled it with our arrogant footsteps and should continue to flourish long after we have gone.”

52. “Nobody was talking about this moral dimension of science. Nobody was placing a hand on humanity’s shoulder and turning us away from this destructive hubris, shaking us into awareness, into humility, into wakefulness to the fragility of a miraculous world that flourished long before we trampled it with our arrogant footsteps and should continue to flourish long after we have gone.”

— Maria Popova

$Maria Popova Quote: “However divided we may feel within ourselves, it is the sum total of our warring fractions that make us who we are – fragmentary but indivisible.”$

53. “However divided we may feel within ourselves, it is the sum total of our warring fractions that make us who we are – fragmentary but indivisible.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “We suffer by wanting different things often at odds with one another, but we suffer even more by wanting to want different things.”

54. “We suffer by wanting different things often at odds with one another, but we suffer even more by wanting to want different things.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “There is no overstating the triumph of having remained motivated by beauty in taking down the ugliest malignancies of human nature’s grasp for power.”

55. “There is no overstating the triumph of having remained motivated by beauty in taking down the ugliest malignancies of human nature’s grasp for power.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “Boredom is not only an adaptive emotion but a vital one with its related faculties of contemplation, solitude, and stillness. It is essential for the life of the mind and the life of the spirit.”

56. “Boredom is not only an adaptive emotion but a vital one with its related faculties of contemplation, solitude, and stillness. It is essential for the life of the mind and the life of the spirit.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “Memory and motive are the two edges of the blade by which we slice experience out of events and carve out history – personal, political, civilizational – from the trunk of life. Both are highly selective – memory retrospectively so and motive prospectively.”

57. “Memory and motive are the two edges of the blade by which we slice experience out of events and carve out history – personal, political, civilizational – from the trunk of life. Both are highly selective – memory retrospectively so and motive prospectively.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “Can any author ever imagine just how far literature reaches into unfathomed horizons of culture, what it transforms and whom it liberates?”

58. “Can any author ever imagine just how far literature reaches into unfathomed horizons of culture, what it transforms and whom it liberates?”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “Some of our dormant multitudes come awake with a catlike stretch, slowly and lazily over years of personal development. Others leap into being with the jolt of an alarm sounded by a particular event or person who has entered our lives at a particular moment – rarely anticipated, almost never convenient, always transformational. On those rare, momentous mornings, one looks into the bathroom mirror and greets – sometimes grudgingly, sometimes gleefully – the gladsome stranger of oneself.”

59. “Some of our dormant multitudes come awake with a catlike stretch, slowly and lazily over years of personal development. Others leap into being with the jolt of an alarm sounded by a particular event or person who has entered our lives at a particular moment – rarely anticipated, almost never convenient, always transformational. On those rare, momentous mornings, one looks into the bathroom mirror and greets – sometimes grudgingly, sometimes gleefully – the gladsome stranger of oneself.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “Above all, Somerville possessed the defining mark of the great scientist and the great human being – the ability to hold one’s opinions with firm but unfisted fingers, remaining receptive to novel theories and willing to change one’s mind in light of new evidence.”

60. “Above all, Somerville possessed the defining mark of the great scientist and the great human being – the ability to hold one’s opinions with firm but unfisted fingers, remaining receptive to novel theories and willing to change one’s mind in light of new evidence.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “But interpretation invariably reveals more about the interpreter than about the interpreted. The gap between intention and interpretation is always rife with wrongs, especially when writer and reader occupy vastly different strata of emotional maturity and intellectual sophistication.”

61. “But interpretation invariably reveals more about the interpreter than about the interpreted. The gap between intention and interpretation is always rife with wrongs, especially when writer and reader occupy vastly different strata of emotional maturity and intellectual sophistication.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “If you don’t have the patience to read something, don’t have the hubris to comment on it.”

62. “If you don’t have the patience to read something, don’t have the hubris to comment on it.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “Life is infinitely more interesting when considered for the questions it raises rather than for the answers it bestows.”

63. “Life is infinitely more interesting when considered for the questions it raises rather than for the answers it bestows.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “Some loves lodge themselves in the tissue of being like mercury, pervading every synapse and sinew to remain there, sometimes dormant, sometimes tortuously restive, with a half-life that exceeds a lifetime.”

64. “Some loves lodge themselves in the tissue of being like mercury, pervading every synapse and sinew to remain there, sometimes dormant, sometimes tortuously restive, with a half-life that exceeds a lifetime.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “The cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living.”

65. “The cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “Beauty magnetizes curiosity and wonder, beckoning us to discover – in the literal sense, to uncover and unconceal – what lies beneath the surface of the human label. What we recognize as beauty may be a language for encoding truth, a memetic mechanism for transmitting it, as native to the universe as mathematics – the one perceived by the optical eye, the other by the mind’s eye.”

66. “Beauty magnetizes curiosity and wonder, beckoning us to discover – in the literal sense, to uncover and unconceal – what lies beneath the surface of the human label. What we recognize as beauty may be a language for encoding truth, a memetic mechanism for transmitting it, as native to the universe as mathematics – the one perceived by the optical eye, the other by the mind’s eye.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “This false notion of the body as the testing ground for intimacy has long warped our understanding of what constitutes a romantic relationship. The measure of intimacy is not the quotient of friction between skin and skin, but something else entirely – something of the love and trust, the joy and ease that flow between two people as they inhabit that private world walled off from everything and everyone else.”

67. “This false notion of the body as the testing ground for intimacy has long warped our understanding of what constitutes a romantic relationship. The measure of intimacy is not the quotient of friction between skin and skin, but something else entirely – something of the love and trust, the joy and ease that flow between two people as they inhabit that private world walled off from everything and everyone else.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “Ambition is disfigured into arrogance when it becomes unmoored from self-awareness, from a realistic assessment of one’s competences.”

68. “Ambition is disfigured into arrogance when it becomes unmoored from self-awareness, from a realistic assessment of one’s competences.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “Where does it live, that place of permission that lets a person chart a new terrain of possibility, that makes her dare to believe she can be something other than what her culture tells her she is, and then become what she believes she can? How does something emerge from nothing?”

69. “Where does it live, that place of permission that lets a person chart a new terrain of possibility, that makes her dare to believe she can be something other than what her culture tells her she is, and then become what she believes she can? How does something emerge from nothing?”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “This is the paradox of transformative experience: Because our imagination is bounded by our existing templates of how the world as we know it works, we fail to anticipate the greatest transformations – the events and encounters so unmoored from the familiar that they transfigure our map of reality and propel us into a wholly novel mode of being.”

70. “This is the paradox of transformative experience: Because our imagination is bounded by our existing templates of how the world as we know it works, we fail to anticipate the greatest transformations – the events and encounters so unmoored from the familiar that they transfigure our map of reality and propel us into a wholly novel mode of being.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “If it is worthy – the book, as the love – and if we are lucky, it reflects us back to ourselves magnified yet transformed.”

71. “If it is worthy – the book, as the love – and if we are lucky, it reflects us back to ourselves magnified yet transformed.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “In a sentiment of remarkable prescience in the context of climate change denial half a century later, Carson articulated the formidable task before her: It is a great problem to know how to look at unpleasant facts that might have to be dealt with if one recognized their existence.”

72. “In a sentiment of remarkable prescience in the context of climate change denial half a century later, Carson articulated the formidable task before her: It is a great problem to know how to look at unpleasant facts that might have to be dealt with if one recognized their existence.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “To be a revolutionary is to be in possession of an imagination capable of leaping across the frontier of the familiar to envision a new order in which what is gained eclipses the ill-serving comforts of what is lost.”

73. “To be a revolutionary is to be in possession of an imagination capable of leaping across the frontier of the familiar to envision a new order in which what is gained eclipses the ill-serving comforts of what is lost.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “I was learning about it along the way, often through reading, often from people and ideas marginalized by culture, erased by the collective selective memory we call history.”

74. “I was learning about it along the way, often through reading, often from people and ideas marginalized by culture, erased by the collective selective memory we call history.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “In the darkest times, we are the most starved for delight – for the self-permission for delight.”

75. “In the darkest times, we are the most starved for delight – for the self-permission for delight.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “Language is not the content of thought but the vessel into which we pour the ambivalences and contradictions of our thinking, afloat on the current of time.”

76. “Language is not the content of thought but the vessel into which we pour the ambivalences and contradictions of our thinking, afloat on the current of time.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “He is not handsome, but looks as the author of his books should look: a little strange and odd, as if not of this earth.”

77. “He is not handsome, but looks as the author of his books should look: a little strange and odd, as if not of this earth.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “She was beginning to realize that no amount of genius ever compensates for, nor excuses, a paucity of kindness, integrity, and unconflicted devotion.”

78. “She was beginning to realize that no amount of genius ever compensates for, nor excuses, a paucity of kindness, integrity, and unconflicted devotion.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “It is one of the ironies of our time that, while concentrating on the defense of our country against enemies from without, we should be so heedless of those who would destroy it from within.”

79. “It is one of the ironies of our time that, while concentrating on the defense of our country against enemies from without, we should be so heedless of those who would destroy it from within.”

— Maria Popova

Maria Popova Quote: “We can no more claim all credit for our achievement than deflect all blame for our impediments.”

80. “We can no more claim all credit for our achievement than deflect all blame for our impediments.”

— Maria Popova

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