November 2011
Alone as a crowd: the latest example of the... →
October 2011
“What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw...”
– Virgil
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
– William James
“No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
– ~ John Locke
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than...”
– Seneca
“If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the...”
– William James
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”
– Seneca
“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral...”
– Confucius
“To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what...”
– Descartes
“Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.”
– Epictetus
“How many are the things I can do without! Socrates”
– Socrates
“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and...”
– Plato
“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou...”
– Marcus Aurelius
“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are...”
– Martin Heidegger
“To live is to think.”
– Cicero
This is my new favorite quote for a while. I find it eponymous with the name of and reasoning behind this blog.
“Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.”
– Seneca
So very true
“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a...”
– William James
“Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his...”
– Confucius
Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the... →
Leading Light: What Would Faster-Than-Light... →
This is good, exploring the implications of what the data suggest is pivotal in expanding our realm of knowledge.
“The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such...”
– Descartes
“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to...”
– Spinoza
“We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.”
– Martin Heidegger
“It is right to give every man his due.”
– Plato
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”
– Kant
Steve Jobs: 'Find What You Love' - WSJ.com →
CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are... →
Here is a further analysis of their grievances: http://www.businessinsider.com/occupy-wall-street-analyzing-their-list-of-demands-2011-10
The Scale of Things in the Universe →
Worrying about growing up or older is of no real significance, growing apart, however, is.
“You’re the oddest person I’ve ever met, you couldn’t get rid of me if you tried.”
– Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry (via quotewhore)
Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case, though I wish it were.
“Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.”
– -Virgil
But why is this the case? Does it have to be?
“Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means...”
– Immanuel Kant
“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is...”
– Henri Bergson
“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”
– Seneca
Let’s hope so.
“May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal...”
– Immanuel Kant
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which...”
– Aristotle
“In order to improve the mind, we ought less learn than to contemplate.”
– Descartes
“Hear the other side.”
– Saint Augustine
“Time discovers truth.”
– Seneca
“He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of...”
– Socrates
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.”
– Bessie A. Stanley (via robot-heart)
“And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much...”
– Barack Obama (via prospekt)
“I’m not sure when it happened, when I realized that something had changed. I...”
– Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge (via creatingaquietmind)
“Smile, breathe and go slowly.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via girlwithoutwings)
“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
– Epictetus 