The Letter (Chekhov) | Part C’
"But what have I sown, Father Fyodor?" the deacon asked softly, looking up at his Reverence. "Why, who is to blame if not you?...
"But what have I sown, Father Fyodor?" the deacon asked softly, looking up at his Reverence. "Why, who is to blame if not you?...
Father Anastasy was still more overwhelmed by confusion; he laughed, and, forgetting his resolution to go away, he dropped back on his chair....
The clerical superintendent of the district, his Reverence Father Fyodor Orlov, a handsome, well-nourished man of fifty, grave and important as he always...
One of the aspects of dependency is that it is unconcerned with spiritual growth. Dependent people are interested in their own nourishment, but...
I define dependency as the inability to experience wholeness or to function adequately without the certainty that one is being actively cared for...
Illusion or not, what explains the fact that for us time ‘runs’, ‘flows’, ‘passes’? The passage of time is obvious to us all:...
At first glance, the idea that our ignorance implies something about the behaviour of the world seems irrational: the cold teaspoon heats up...
‘What is heat?’ Until the mid-nineteenth century, physicists attempted to understand heat by thinking of it as a kind of fluid, called ‘caloric’; or...
We can already see how these biases and errors in thinking affect the way that people make financial decisions. When a large number...
‘Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.’ Daniel Kahneman Kahneman won the Nobel Prize for economic sciences...