Avishek Ghosh

“True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“A personal metric: how much of the day is spent doing things out of obligation rather than out of interest?”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

“Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“And he recalled Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Lion of the Panjshir, talking by the campfire. "We are all sentenced to die, Angleez. But only a warrior blessed of Allah may be allowed to choose how!" Colonel Mike Martin made his choice . . .”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Afghan