Darshan Shetty

“As we should know by now, it is as easy to make fun of religious or scientific visionaries as it is to idolize them. Which attitude is adopted depends on whether or not they tell you what you want to hear.”
― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror

“mathematics as an innate ability. You either have “it” or you don’t. But to Schoenfeld, it’s not so much ability as attitude. You master mathematics if you are willing to try. That’s what Schoenfeld attempts to teach his students. Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds. Put a bunch of Renees in a classroom, and give them the space and time to explore mathematics for themselves,”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“If we must think, it should be done only in circles, outside of which lies the unthinkable.”
― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror

“I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend