Adam Gopnik
Brief Bio: American writer and essayist
Lived: 1955-
For further info: en.wikipedia.org
Quotes:
“Absorption in something outside us”
Genuine happiness is always rooted in absorption in something outside us, and begins in accomplishment undertaken for its own sake and pursued to its own odd and buzzing ends.
2024 from the book All That Happiness Is
“Human psychology will never be fully explained”
It’s all the reasons why human psychology will never be fully explained or pictured by scientific investigation — there are just too many variables, too many vectors pressing in on every incident. It’s the reason why storytelling and songwriting and poetry-making will always be so much more effective organizers and vehicles of our experience than studies in social science.
2024 from the book All That Happiness Is