A Momentary Diversion on the Road to the Grave

A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying Nothing

[eudaimonist]

[stoplookingatmecrazy-blog]

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[hitku]

by David Carmack Lewis

[cordjefferson]

[wordsnquotes]

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

Virginia Woolf, Selected Essays

[coastandpine]

[ponderation]

Calm by Niilo Isotalo

[scientific-women]

To Unlock the Brain’s Mysteries, Purée It

A Vanderbilt neuroscientist has discovered an unusual but shockingly fruitful way to study our most enigmatic organ.

[trulyvincent]

General Practitioner Grant Wood - 1936

[hyperbanal]

The last 500 years have witnessed a breathtaking series of revolutions. The earth has been united into a single ecological and historical sphere. The economy has grown exponentially, and humankind today enjoys the kind of wealth that used to be the stuff of fairy tales. Science and the Industrial Revolution have given humankind superhuman powers and practically limitless energy. The social order has been completely transformed, as have politics, daily life and human psychology. But are we happier? Did the wealth humankind accumulated over the last five centuries translate into a new-found contentment? Did the discovery of inexhaustible energy resources open before us inexhaustible stores of bliss? Going further back, have the seventy or so turbulent millennia since the Cognitive Revolution made the world a better place to live? Was the late Neil Armstrong, whose footprint remains intact on the windless moon, happier than the nameless hunter-gatherer who 30,000 years ago left her handprint on a wall in Chauvet Cave? If not, what was the point of developing agriculture, cities, writing, coinage, empires, science and industry?

Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

[purplebuddhaquotes]

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

Carol Shields

[frederick-the-ii]

*RARE* John Denver & Johnny Cash - Take Me Home Country Roads

Found this while going through my granddad’s VHS tapes and couldn’t find it anywhere online, so here it is.

[ghostcoookies]

Almost heaven…

[eudaimonist]

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value 

[gnarlyeccentricities]

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“These Days” // Marika Hackman (Jackson Browne Cover)

[theintrovertnation]

[purplebuddhaquotes]

Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind.

Toni Morrison

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