Et Cetera

A Curated List of Brainteasers

Aeon | a world of ideas: Quite literally a world of ideas.
The Marginalian: "...on the search for meaning across science, art, philosophy, and the various other tendrils of human thought and feeling."
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge: An essay by Abraham Flexner, the founder of the Institute for Advanced Study
Cezanne's Doubt by Maurice Merleau-Ponty: An insight into the life of a creative genius
The Questions of Miles Davis by Jim Merod: An insight into the life of another creative genius
Books and Authors:
- The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky)
- Tao Te Ching (Lao Tzu)
- The Gay Science (Nietzsche)
- Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
- Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)
- The Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison)
- The Razor's Edge (W. Somerset Maugham)
- पल्पसा क्याफे - Palpasa Cafe (Narayan Wagle)
Poetry:
Movies:
- Good Will Hunting
- Dead Poets Society
- Captain Fantastic
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- American Beauty
- Mr. Nobody
- The Truman Show
Podcasts/Videocasts:

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“For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.

Describing—that is the last ambition of an absurd thought. Science likewise, having reached the end of its paradoxes, ceases to propound and stops to contemplate and sketch the ever-virgin landscape of phenomena. The heart learns thus that the emotion delighting us when we see the world’s aspects comes to us not from its depth but from their diversity. Explanation is useless, but the sensation remains and, with it, the constant attractions of a universe inexhaustible in quantity. The place of the work of art can be understood at this point.”

Albert Camus

Header image: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, Paul Gauguin