p.d.r

[vintageeveryday]

Bear eating marshmallow, Yellowstone National Park, 1967.

[goodreadss]

““Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.””

— Mark Twain (via goodreadss)

[philosophybits]

“All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create.”

— Friedrich Schelling, On University Studies

[goodreadss]

“Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum — a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I’m watching over it for no one but myself.”

— Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973 (via goodreadss)

[scientificphilosopher]

Person: Are those vegetables organic?

Me: They are indeed. Lots of the molecular compounds contain carbon atoms.

Person: …

Person: Sounds delicious.

[goodreadss]

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

— Martin Luther King Jr. (via goodreadss)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I believe in you, and there’s no end to it.”

— D. H. Lawrence, from a letter to Katherine Mansfield wr. c. February 1916

[aqua-regia009]

Blasphemia (2018) - Eliran Kantor

[brilliantlyhorrid]

[knitmeapony]

This is still one of the best executed jokes I’ve ever seen

[books-n-quotes]

“The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.”

— Glennon Melton, Carry On, Warrior (via books-n-quotes)

[transpunkspacejunk]

be christ-like this christmas. gather a crowd and inspire them to anarchism. beat a politician with a whip. help out your local sex workers. preach equality.

[snlgifs]

[goodreadss]

““We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.””

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night (via goodreadss)

[gonegenet]

16:00 to marseille , after whitman  arms sunkissed and polite confined space, long- distance regulation move from sleep on your knees to active engagement sending invisible things flying across these bounty heavy hills wherever golden hairs moving silent fractionally with your tendons endear me to you didn’t have a book but i thought no, this this boy will have interesting things to tell me

(“Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you     not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?” - Whitman)

[theclassicsreader]

student life: regularly writes 20 page papers, cannot articulate one email

[goodreadss]

“Well, let it pass; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Sensible Thing” in The Short Stories (via goodreadss)

[dailynietzsche]

“The second question of self-formation: Do you want to become happier or more indifferent to happiness and unhappiness?”

—F. Nietzsche, The Will to Power, §909 (edited excerpt).