Category: Psychology

Why do we describe the act of loving someone as “falling in love”? It is not entirely clear who first used this expression, but it is said to have originated around the early modern period, around 1500, and some people connect it to Shakespeare. Fall in love has long become a commonplace expression in English,…

Loneliness is the destiny of human beings, an unavoidable and fated part of life. Since the 19th century, many philosophers, writers, and psychologists have expressed this attitude from different perspectives, such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Thomas Wolfe, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hannah Arendt, and Irvin Yalom, among others. Regardless, the belief that loneliness is a human destiny seems…