{"product_id":"insightful-thoughts-ryszard-nowosielski-9798287389482","title":"Insightful Thoughts: A selection of one's own thoughts","description":"\u003cp\u003eI selected Insightful Thoughts (Myśli przenikliwe) toward the end of 2006, drawing from unpublished collections of aphorisms: The Blind Man with the Hourglass (Ślepiec z klepsydrą), A Commentary on the World (Komentarz do świata), Notes from the Hospice (Zapiski z hospicjum), and Hungry Fragments of Culture (Kawalki glodne kultury)-the fruit of reflections accumulated over two decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA few had appeared earlier in the published volume Aphorisms and Thoughts (Aforyzmy i myśli, Lublin: Wydawnictwo Test, 2002). For the most part, however, the present selection remained unknown to readers, surfacing only occasionally in my online writings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI deliberately excluded materials from unpublished poetic sequences: Graphorisms (Graforyzmy) and Handcrafts (Rękodziela), though fragments of these had circulated on the Poland-L discussion list. Each aphorism included here was selected purely on the basis of its epistemic resonance-whether it seemed to touch the essence of an elusive truth or merely grazed the contours of its form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in Polish under the title Myśli Przenikliwe. Wybór myśli wlasnych, this volume appeared in Lublin (Norbertinum, 2009).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe English translation was completed only in June 2025, prompted by the growing visibility of some of these thoughts in Polish intellectual discourse. Their reach, I believe, ought not be confined to a national readership.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe selection that follows may be placed in dialogue with the finest aphorists I have admired since the 1970s. My engagement with this form-intensely literary, briefly philosophical-has always taken its bearings from the greatest names in the tradition: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCanetti, Karel Čapek, Anton P. Chekhov, Émile Michel Cioran, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Confucius and Disciples, Maria Dąbrowska, Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Henryk Elzenberg, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Franklin, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Witold Gombrowicz, Nikolai V. Gogol, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Hermann Hesse, Karol Irzykowski, Antoni Kępiński, Franz Kafka, Nicolas Chamfort, Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Jean de La Bruyère, François de La Rochefoucauld, Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu, Luc de Clapiers (Vauvenargues), Muhammad, Novalis, Cyprian Kamil Norwid, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Schopenhauer, George Bernard Shaw, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Hugo Dionizy Steinhaus, Sun Tzu and Disciples, Aleksander Świętochowski, Paul Ambroise Valéry, Leo N. Tolstoy, Seneca the Younger, Karl Kraus, Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Ryszard Nowosielski\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ryszard Nowosielski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798287389482\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/09\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.06d","brand":"Ryszard Nowosielski","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852576010495,"sku":"9798287389482","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/insightful-thoughts-ryszard-nowosielski-9798287389482","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}