Hemanth

“The psyche is built upon avoiding this pain, and as a result, it has fear of pain as its foundation. That is what caused the psyche to be. To understand this, notice that if the feeling of rejection is a major problem for you, you will fear experiences that cause rejection. That fear will become part of your psyche. Even though the actual events causing rejection are infrequent, you will have to deal with the fear of rejection all the time. That is how we create a pain that is always there. If you are doing something to avoid pain, then pain is running your life. All of your thoughts and feelings will be affected by your fears.”
― Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

“Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.”
― Immanuel Kant

“We find other people's vanity contrary to our taste only when it is contrary to our vanity.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“...nothing stands so much in the way of the production and propagation of the great philosopher by nature as does the bad philosopher who works for the state.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Schopenhauer as Educator