Jash Dholani
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Thomas Carlyle attacked democracy, slammed rationalism, and became his centuryβs most famous writer Chesterton called him a seer Emerson: βHe never wrote a dull lineβ Dig into C...
I sometimes think "The Young Napoleon Bonaparte Studying At The Military Academy" is the hardest painting of all time https://t.co/A0aGuGSNG6
C.S. Lewis almost died in the trench warfare of WW1 Became best friends with Tolkien Sold 100 million+ books At the start of WW2, he posed a question to Oxford students in a pro...
Youβre looking at one of the most impressive autodidacts of the last 200 years Henry Hazlitt published his first book at 21 Was a NYT finance editor for 12 years Sold a million...
There are no good agreeable philosophers
Chateaubriand was from an old aristocratic clan, nearly died defending the Monarchy in the French Revolution, and was embraced by Napoleon only to be exiled His books were so infl...
Ralph Waldo Emerson entered Harvard at 14, was friends with Napoleon's nephew, and gave 1500+ lectures in his life. One of his best ever lectures, given in 1850, was called "The Us...
Why being a writer means you are a mapmaker π§΅
What are some based movies?
You're looking at a 463 year old painting... That contains 126 hidden messages (that we've been able to count...) This painting is "The Topsy Turvy World" by Bruegel And it has...
Introversion is disproven because when an introverted physicist meets another introverted physicist they act like extroverts
Terence McKenna was a drug smuggler in Tibet, a pro butterfly collector in Indonesia, hunter of psychedelic mushrooms with his brother in Amazon rainforests, and the founder of a b...