Now, he realized, he simply had to take what he wanted. He had to control the winds, not the other way around (p. 434) (Rick Riordan, The House of Hades)
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly (Franz Kafka)
We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for
We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for (Jeremy Rifkin)
And it’s thought by many neuroscientists such as Rodolfo Llinas of New York University that such goal-directed active movement, a biological property known as “motricity,” is a requirement for the development of the nervous system
And it’s thought by many neuroscientists such as Rodolfo Llinas of New York University that such goal-directed active movement, a biological property known as “motricity,” is a requirement for the development of the nervous system. (Karen Shanor, Bats Sing, Mice Giggle: The Surprising Science of Animals’ Inner Lives)
Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap’s versifying
Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap’s versifying. (A.S. Byatt, Possession)
The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God
The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God (Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island)
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age (Sinclair Lewis)
The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world but on the contrary, a dependent and even hapless creature, and who then discovered that he was doomed to die – Roberto Mangabeira Unger, The Religion of the Future
The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world but on the contrary, a dependent and even hapless creature, and who then discovered that he was doomed to die – Roberto Mangabeira Unger, The Religion of the Future
There is a human reification needingan eschatological regression
There is a human reification needingan eschatological regression (Marieta Maglas- Eschatological Regression)
In the endeavor to establish a difficult habit, for example, mere wishing will never carry it to a successful conclusion; our wishing must rise to the level of WANTING if this goal is to be achieved
In the endeavor to establish a difficult habit, for example, mere wishing will never carry it to a successful conclusion; our wishing must rise to the level of WANTING if this goal is to be achieved (Ralph Alfred Habas, The Art of Self-Control)