“As rivers flow into the sea and so lose name and form, attains the Supreme Being, the Self-Luminous, the Infinite.” — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Infinite Copy Share Image
“Anything we have chosen to do invites the specters of all that we haven't chosen - this is the real mystery of… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Choice Copy Share Image
“time...counts for precisely something because its quantity is fixed” — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Precisely Copy Share Image
“San Francisco was full of people walking around with their pockets stuffed with 1.2 percent of nothing.” — Gideon Lewis-Kraus San francisco Copy Share Image
“The Valley might not actually make much in the way of tangible goods, but like industrial centers before it, it’s the place… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Success Copy Share Image
“an MIT AI PhD can generally walk alone into an investor meeting wearing a coconut-shell bra, perform a series of improvised birdcalls,… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Investing Copy Share Image
“The experiences of wanting less, needing less, and giving more allow us to withdraw from the psychic conflicts that cause so much… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Wanting Copy Share Image
“I wondered...if the difference between people who believed in preparation and those who believed in proof...wasn't the difference between those who worked… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus People Believed Copy Share Image
If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart's parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Big cities Copy Share Image
“The main problem with desires...is that they're not nearly as authoritative as we wish they were...How can you find some structure that… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Desire Copy Share Image
“breaks from the ordered configurations of everyday life...'anti-structures.' The chief characteristic of the anti-structure...is...'communitas' - a spontaneous, rich, classless, nonhierarchical association of… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Day life Copy Share Image
Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard,… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Book Copy Share Image
The promise of the Internet-as-Alexandria is more than the rolling plenitude of information. It's the ability of individuals to choreograph that information… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Ability Copy Share Image
“Starting a company has become the way for ambitious young people to do something that seems simultaneously careerist and heroic.” — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Ambitious Copy Share Image
“As long as we keep moving, time is kept at bay; when we stop, it catches up in a rush.” — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Kept Copy Share Image
“Tom and I help in common the hope that there might be a geographical ticket out of the problems of indecision, boredom,… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Hope Copy Share Image
“This is perhaps what we lose in the absence of calendrical rite: We lean too heavily on the fantasy of one salvific… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Fantasy Copy Share Image
“My dad sent me dozens of texts to the effect that he was ready to forgive me for my 'outburst' and that… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Father Copy Share Image
“Emilie...got done during the day what she had to get done and she did at night what she wanted to do. She… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Heart Copy Share Image
“On the divine model, sin is a bad decision in the eyes of God. Penance is the expiation of sin through suffering… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Forgiveness Copy Share Image
