Thought Repository

Writings, inquiries, poems, and reblogs pertaining to the Universe, the Mind, the World, and the Self.

[fyp-psychology]

It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others.

Alfred Adler (via fyp-psychology)

[fyp-psychology]

Too much positive can be detrimental. Too much negative can be destructive.

Erik Erikson (via fyp-psychology)

Which..

[fyp-philosophy]

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Confucius (via fyp-philosophy)

Simple

[fyp-philosophy]

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis (via fyp-philosophy)

Ah

[kevinthygreat-blog]

Microcosms

You compare your life with the life others live. You challenge their knowledge and wisdom with what you know. You were born under different circumstances and live different lives and learn different things. You are yourself and they are themselves. They live in their world and you live in your own. Is there truly a superior way to live a life? We create our own worlds from intertwining with the worlds of others. In the end we are all in the same world we cannot see.

[fyp-philosophy]

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant (via fyp-philosophy)

Sensible.

[fyp-philosophy]

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche (via fyp-philosophy)

[fyp-philosophy]

Each person is an enigma. You’re a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.

Theodore Zeldin (via fyp-philosophy)

I am?

[fyp-philosophy]

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.

F. H. Bradley (via fyp-philosophy)

[fyp-philosophy]

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Gandhi (via fyp-philosophy)

Perhaps

[fyp-philosophy]

I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

George F. Burns (via fyp-philosophy)

Indeed

[cosmicvastness]

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day 2016 January 31 

MWC 922: The Red Square Nebula 

What could cause a nebula to appear square? No one is quite sure. The hot star system known as MWC 922, however, appears to be embedded in a nebula with just such a shape. The featured image combines infrared exposures from the Hale Telescope on Mt. Palomar in California, and the Keck-2 Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. A leading progenitor hypothesis for the square nebula is that the central star or stars somehow expelled cones of gas during a late developmental stage. For MWC 922, these cones happen to incorporate nearly right angles and be visible from the sides. Supporting evidence for the cone hypothesis includes radial spokes in the image that might run along the cone walls. Researchers speculate that the cones viewed from another angle would appear similar to the gigantic rings of supernova 1987A, possibly indicating that a star in MWC 922 might one day itself explode in a similar supernova.

[kevinthygreat-blog]

Interesting shape for a nebula.

[kevinthygreat-blog]

Knowing

In a flawless existence we would "know" a person without ever speaking to them. But can we ever truly "understand" someone else? Most of us seem to not know ourselves which makes our self understanding impossible.

[matialonsorphoto]

[kevinthygreat-blog]

Lovely

[fyp-philosophy]

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

Ernest Renan (via fyp-philosophy)

Y

[fyp-psychology]

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

Karl Jaspers (via fyp-psychology)

[fyp-philosophy]

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus (via fyp-philosophy)