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I will stand by it, wine helps me write better. Love how my novel is reflecting in the glass.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music

Nietzsche

Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.

Plato, The Republic (via fyp-philosophy)

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness (via fyp-philosophy)

philosophybits

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

Plato (via philosophybits)

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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Rene Descartes (via philosophybits)

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Inside Google’s Excessive-Tech Knowledge Facilities by imagesd man Via Flickr: Check out how Google retains its pc servers working at their 13 information facilities around the globe (6 within the U.S., 3 in Europe, 3 in Asia and 1 in Chile). Huge quantity of water is required to chill the IT tools around the clock. Contained in the services, colourful pipes carry water… imageswow.com/inside-googles-excessive-tech-knowledge-fac…

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fyp-philosophy

“We often have to explain to young people why study is useful. It’s pointless telling them that it’s for the sake of knowledge, if they don’t care about knowledge. Nor is there any point in telling them that an educated person gets through life better than an ignoramus, because they can always point to some genius who, from their standpoint, leads a wretched life. And so the only answer is that the exercise of knowledge creates relationships, continuity, and emotional attachments. It introduces us to parents other than our biological ones. It allows us to live longer, because we don’t just remember our own life but also those of others. It creates an unbroken thread that runs from our adolescence (and sometimes from infancy) to the present day. And all this is very beautiful.

Umberto Eco (via fyp-philosophy)

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[25/Jan/2016] VJ-09

I’m going to upload my work irregularly for a while.

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I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

Albert Camus, The Fall (via wordsnquotes)

Mortal Hourglass

Every year you slip through another lapse of time that made up part of your existence, an annual reminder that your time is running out. Most people look to their birthdays as a means of celebration, an excuse to drink in excess and perhaps commit actions that they’ll regret in the waking hours. Even just a get together with friends and family as some form of self promotion, an attempt to remind the world you exist. Why does another tick on the reaper’s abacus bring so many humans delight? Or in some cases resentment.

Most children are given this notion that a birthday is an important day, all about them. I think this must be some kind of trickle down effect from the parent’s joy for the day their child was brought into the world, a small beacon of light in an oil drowning world. My main problem with this viewpoint is, the world keeps turning and it most certainly is not going to turn around me, your or anyone else. Now we have a world filled with generations of humans that feel they deserve a day dedicated to them, a day in which their actions are held in less accountability, a false sense of entitlement.

That isn’t to say that there aren’t a great deal of people who look to their birthday the same way I do, a grim reminder of our mortality. A giant swinging pendulum, knocking off another year with every swing. Perhaps both viewpoints are flawed, since both of these views put an emphasis on a day. Just a day like any other. Is it really so important to narrow down one day? One day that every living creature is given? Why is yours so important? Self-centered thinking without even realizing it.

Carry on as you will, the fact remains it is just another setting of the sun. Another blink of time in the grand work of the universe. You really are not special after all.

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