How passed thinking informs the present when it comes to learning.
"It's a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger that memory becomes."
Nabakov.
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover for ourselves than by those given to us by others'. Lec
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. Lec
'The surest way to corrupt a young man is to teach him to esteem more highly those who think alike than those who think differently'. Nietzsche
'Analogy is the only language understood by the subconscious mind'. Jung
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." Jung
"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. " Jung
Tags: lec, jung, nietzsche, nabakov, homer