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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7eed6e7 | To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. | error fact reason truth | Charles Darwin | |
| 1b4e47e | Humanity has in the course of time had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon its naive self-love. The first was when it realized that our earth was not the center of the universe, but only a tiny speck in a world-system of a magnitude hardly conceivable; this is associated in our minds with the name of Copernicus, although Alexandrian doctrines taught something very similar. The second was when biological research robb.. | Sigmund Freud | ||
| 2b55262 | It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance. | ignorance | Charles Darwin | |
| 6ef5c0f | If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not because we lacked the brain power to protect ourselves but because we lacked the foresight. The dominant species that replaces us in post-apocalyptic Earth just might wonder, as they gaze upon our mounted skeletons in their natural history museums, why large-headed Homo sapiens fared no better than th.. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| f40e060 | Whence the possibility of an ideological analysis of Disneyland (L. Marin did it very well in Utopiques, jeux d'espace [Utopias, play of space]): digest of the American way of life, panegyric of American values, idealized transposition of a contradictory reality. Certainly. But this masks something else and this "ideological" blanket functions as a cover for a simulation of the third order: Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the .. | disneyland simulacra simulation | Jean Baudrillard | |
| aa8bd3f | Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| 66c21c9 | Kagome taught me how to smile, how to believe in people. Kagome was the reason I could make friends, and rely on those friends. To shed tears for others, to understand true strength and kindness...They're all things I learned from Kagome. Kagome was born to meet me, and I was born for her! | Rumiko Takahashi | ||
| 2407fdd | Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 6c80606 | No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own insanity. But it's not impossible that human beings are incapable of interpreting a power so much greater than themselves. Maybe religions are twisted and perverted shadows of truth. Maybe there are forces which shape the world. I myself have n.. | Glen Cook | ||
| 703296c | In the end, I've found that it doesn't really matter who you marry. If you like them at the beginning, you probably won't like them at the end. And if you start off hating them, there's always the chance you'll end up thinking they're all right. | Alain de Botton | ||
| ed50aa6 | Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 21254d8 | There are two kinds of women--those who eat in a crisis and those who lose their appetite in a crisis. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 7e26fa6 | What if two people want to be your partner, then what? | humor | Emily Giffin | |
| 14a9561 | There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature. | magic magic-vs-nature magic-vs-science nature power science | H. Rider Haggard | |
| 53b2744 | The Victim was a chronic fuck-up. People Like her always seemed to hang out with The Poisonous Cunt. In turn, she kept their self-esteem low and made sure that they stayed in psychic immiseration. She was a curator of dead souls. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| b11652a | The paraphrase of Godel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause its indirect self-destruction. | Douglas R. Hofstadter | ||
| 929edfd | Love is a strange fact - it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no sense at all. | Leif Enger | ||
| 644fac0 | Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land. | David Almond | ||
| 6dbad0c | Oak, granite, Lilies by the road, Remember me? I remember you. Clouds brushing Clover hills, Remember me? Sister, child, Grown tall, Remember me? I remember you. | love remember reunion sisters | Gail Carson Levine | |
| a0075f5 | Calvin: I'm a genius. I can't believe how smart I am. ...I've got more brains than I know what to do with. Hobbes: So I've noticed. | Bill Watterson | ||
| ed446ab | I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip. | calvin-and-hobbes | Bill Watterson | |
| 56da1be | Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to. | David Mitchell | ||
| 63d5ee7 | Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured. | David Mitchell | ||
| 31640dc | Eva knows I'm terra incognita and explores me unhurriedly, like you did. Because she's lean as a boy. Because her scent is almonds, meadow grass. Because if I smile at her ambition to be an Egyptologist, she kicks my shin under the table. Because she makes me think about something other than myself. Because even when serious she shines. Because she prefers travelogues to Sir Walter Scott, prefers Billy Mayerl to Mozart, and couldn't tell a .. | David Mitchell | ||
| 502cce0 | And you know, these things don't last forever.' I know, Mandy. Nothing does.' That's the spirit. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 6d8b937 | It's just programming" "No. It's because I love him" | scott uglies | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 2f05f76 | I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to." | expectations girls men men-and-women sense taran | Lloyd Alexander | |
| a510b9d | Here then - the after math of meaning. A liftime finished between the space of two frames. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 418b1f9 | I had always found comfort in the leaves, in their silence. They were like a parchment that holds words of wisdom. Simply holding them in my hand gave me some of the peace a tree possesses. To be like that-to just be-that's the most noble thing of all. | Silas House | ||
| 53b4aa2 | Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies. | David Brin | ||
| 9d42292 | It's like, you can't trust anybody, and if somebody you know doesn't fuck you over it's just because the price of selling you down the river was never high enough. | Jay McInerney | ||
| 1a1bd47 | The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last. | Colum McCann | ||
| bc9eda5 | I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but I have almost always found that children are a great deal more reliable in telling us what actually goes on in public school than many of the adult experts who develop policies that shape their destinies. | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| 1327b71 | They say a man's inspiration is visual, but for a woman, it's the narrative. Abandon both the narrative and the visual. Close your eyes, measure your breath. Dead weight is sloughed off, dust swept away, forms dissolve into one atmosphere. The rib cage opens, the lungs fill, the breast rises. Waves sweep up the body on their swell, rocking it rhythmically. Feet planted, the back arches, the pelvis reaches forward. Oxygen kindles a fla.. | Craig Thompson | ||
| 3db9297 | It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily. | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| 69384de | Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith. | Reza Aslan | ||
| 6f15f93 | When I was in junior high I read a lot of Danielle Steele. So I always assumed that the day I got engaged I'd be naked, covered in rose petals, and sleeping with the brother of the man who'd kidnapped me. | Jenny Lawson | ||
| efdc119 | If at eighty you're not a cripple or an invalid, if you have your health, if you still enjoy a good walk, a good meal (with all the trimmings), if you can sleep without first taking a pill, if birds and flowers, mountains and sea still inspire you, you are a most fortunate individual and you should get down on your knees morning and night and thank the good Lord for his savin' and keepin' power. If you are young in years but already weary i.. | eighty life | Henry Miller | |
| 7186885 | We create our fate everyday | Henry Miller | ||
| 146291c | Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the blood to leave his vessels because if he advances another foot the pain of his love will kill him. | artists-life blocks bridge brooklyn creativity love poem poetry suffering suicide writing | Henry Miller | |
| 5099249 | Tomorrow you may bring about the destruction of your world. Tomorrow you may sing in Paradise above the smoking ruins of your world-cities. But tonight I would like to think of one man, a lone individual, a man without name or country, a man whom I respect because he has absolutely nothing in common with you - MYSELF. Tonight I shall meditate upon that which I am. | Henry Miller | ||
| 76803a2 | I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead. | henry-miller | Henry Miller | |
| 3e9fe4d | The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing. | Henry Miller | ||
| 224a7da | When I look down into this fucked-out cunt of a whore I feel the whole world beneath me, a world tottering and crumbling, a world used up and polished like a leper's skull. If there were a man who dared to say all that he thought of this world there would not be left him a square foot of ground to stand on. When a man appears the world bears down on him and breaks his back. There are always too many rotten pillars left standing, too much fe.. | Henry Miller |