motion

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
b6ae32e	If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change.	war politics change happiness philosophy contests data popular brilliance taxation information motion questioning worry facts government peace ignorance thinking forget	Ray Bradbury
5a0bfc1	As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And as long as I knew the world was still in motion, I knew I existed. Not a very consequential existence, but an existence nonetheless. It struck me as wanting that someone should confirm his own existence only by the hands of an electric wall clock. There had to be a more cognitive means of confirmation. But try as I might, nothing less facile came to mind.	consequential electric-wall-clock motion	Haruki Murakami
9c379a9	I made a circular motion with my finger around my temple to indicate I thought this guy was crazy, forgetting that there was no one in the room to see this circular motion except him. He saw it and frowned.	circular frowned motion crazy	John Swartzwelder
778544c	Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.	identity philosophy static dynamic motion individualism self	Fernando Pessoa
7672857	So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute parts are in rapid motion, the velocity increasing with the temperature, that the precise nature of this motion becomes a subject of rational curiosity. , , , , , &c., have shewn that the relations between pressure, temperature and density in a perfect gas can be explained by supposing the particles move with uniform velocity in straight lines, striking against the sides of the containing vessel and thus producing pressure. (1860)	science august-krönig bernoulli clausius daniel-bernoulli herapath james-joule james-prescott-joule john-herapath joule kronig rudolf-clausius rudolf-gottlieb rudolf-julius-emanuel-clausius matter temperature motion property curiosity physics	James Clerk Maxwell
116e720	Calliope was never still. Even when she was seemingly motionless, he could see her mind at work, sorting ideas, seeking solutions, cataloging the space around her. To see her beauty, one had to see her in motion.	motion	Jim Butcher
8ccb595	We were in separate realities, fast and slow. There is no fixed reality, only objects in contrast.	objectivity objects subjectivity motion speed observation relativity perception	Rachel Kushner
9b1603e	"It's only when you stop to think about it. I don't stop. - From "Morning"	humor motion reflection introspection	Donald Barthelme

b6ae32e

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change.

war politics change happiness philosophy contests data popular brilliance taxation information motion questioning worry facts government peace ignorance thinking forget

Ray Bradbury

5a0bfc1

As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And as long as I knew the world was still in motion, I knew I existed. Not a very consequential existence, but an existence nonetheless. It struck me as wanting that someone should confirm his own existence only by the hands of an electric wall clock. There had to be a more cognitive means of confirmation. But try as I might, nothing less facile came to mind.

consequential electric-wall-clock motion

Haruki Murakami

9c379a9

I made a circular motion with my finger around my temple to indicate I thought this guy was crazy, forgetting that there was no one in the room to see this circular motion except him. He saw it and frowned.

circular frowned motion crazy

John Swartzwelder

778544c

Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.

identity philosophy static dynamic motion individualism self

Fernando Pessoa

7672857

So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute parts are in rapid motion, the velocity increasing with the temperature, that the precise nature of this motion becomes a subject of rational curiosity. , , , , , &c., have shewn that the relations between pressure, temperature and density in a perfect gas can be explained by supposing the particles move with uniform velocity in straight lines, striking against the sides of the containing vessel and thus producing pressure. (1860)

science august-krönig bernoulli clausius daniel-bernoulli herapath james-joule james-prescott-joule john-herapath joule kronig rudolf-clausius rudolf-gottlieb rudolf-julius-emanuel-clausius matter temperature motion property curiosity physics

James Clerk Maxwell

116e720

Calliope was never still. Even when she was seemingly motionless, he could see her mind at work, sorting ideas, seeking solutions, cataloging the space around her. To see her beauty, one had to see her in motion.

motion

Jim Butcher

8ccb595

We were in separate realities, fast and slow. There is no fixed reality, only objects in contrast.

objectivity objects subjectivity motion speed observation relativity perception

Rachel Kushner

9b1603e

"It's only when you stop to think about it. I don't stop. - From "Morning"

humor motion reflection introspection

Donald Barthelme