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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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@theworksinprogress
An educated person is not someone that can recite an army of facts and knows a lot of things, but rather it is someone that has the flexibility of mind. Someone that is willing to explore their own prejudice and has acquired a depth of understanding that allows them to see the world through another point of view. I suspect education maybe is less a bout knowing more than someone and more about knowing soemone...really knowing someone...who is not like you.
Quote shared via Kindle: "“Reason wishes to give a just decision; anger wishes its decision to be thought just.”"
Quote shared via Kindle: "As Cato the Younger put it beautifully: “The value of good health is judged by its duration, the value of virtue i
Quote shared via Kindle: "Practice 5 Contemplate Your Own Death “I am not eternal, but a human being; a part of the whole, as an hour is of
It’s impossible to know what the consequences of misfortune or of good fortune will bring. Take it as it comes.
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Quote shared via Kindle: "For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a
Quote shared via Kindle: "Surely it is by asking such questions that we know we are alive. And moreover, it has always been the case that wh
Quote shared via Kindle: "If the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn’t understa
Quote shared via Kindle: "“Sophie, either you are living in a wondrous universe on a tiny planet in one of many hundred billion galaxies
Quote shared via Kindle: "To summarize briefly: A white rabbit is pulled out of a top hat. Because it is an extremely large rabbit, the tric
To try and fail is it least to learn. To fail to try is to suffer the inestimable price of what may have been
Algorithms to live by
"A sculptor is working on a large block of granite. He hacks away at the formless block every day. One day a little boy comes by and says, “What are you looking for?” “Wait and see,” answers the sculptor. After a few days the little boy comes back, and now the sculptor has carved a beautiful horse out of the granite. The boy stares at it in amazement, then he turns to the sculptor and says, “How did you know it was in there?”
Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (FSG Classics)" by Jostein Gaarder, Paulette Møller
"“Have you ever thought about the fact that there are a lot of hearts and diamonds in a pack of cards? And a lot of spades and clubs. But there’s only one joker.”"
from "Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (FSG Classics)" by Jostein Gaarder, Paulette Møller
"“Superstitious.” What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called “faith.” But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people’s belief superstition?" from "
Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (FSG Classics)" by Jostein Gaarder, Paulette Møller
"“Everything flows,” said Heraclitus. Everything is in constant flux and movement, nothing is abiding. Therefore we “cannot step twice into the same river.” When I step into the river for the second time, neither I nor the river are the same."
"Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (FSG Classics)" by Jostein Gaarder, Paulette Møller
Freaks become norms, and norms become extinct. Monster by monster, evolution advanced.
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Normalcy is the antithesis of evolution.
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The point is this: if you cannot separate the phenotype of mental illness from creative impulses, then you cannot separate the genotype of mental illness and creative impulse
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Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History