Writings

Minerva's Gambit - Chapter Twenty Three“What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.”  — Ludwig…

Minerva's Gambit - Chapter Twenty TwoThe pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. — Carl Jung

Minerva's Gambit - Chapter Twenty OneWhat then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of…

Part III - The PriestMinerva's Gambit - Chapter TwentyTo be thrown upon one’s own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune, for our faculties then undergo…

Minerva's Gambit - Chapter NineteenEvery great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it. — Niels Bohr

Minerva's Gambit - Chapter EighteenUltimately, it is not our animal passion towards an event that compels us to act, but our will. Either that or a fascinating job offer. —…

Minerva's Gambit - Chapter SeventeenCharacter is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Minerva's Gambit - Chapter SixteenThis subjugation of the old personality along with the birth of the new is, in fact, almost equivalent to the annihilation of the old and the…

Minerva's Gambit - Chapter FifteenNow, when we are alive, we are so though our soul is dead and buried in our body, as if in a tomb. But if it…

Minerva's Gambit - Chapter FourteenIf a theory corresponds to the facts but does not cohere with some earlier knowledge, then this earlier knowledge should be discarded. — Karl Popper