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| 5dd4d7a | Knowledge of physical laws can, in some cases, give you the confidence to confront surly people. A few years ago I was having a hot-cocoa nightcap at a dessert shop in Pasadena, California. I had ordered it with whipped cream, of course. When it arrived at the table, I saw no trace of the stuff. After I told the waiter that my cocoa was plain, he asserted I couldn't see the whipped cream because it sank to the bottom. Since whipped cream ha.. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 51cd6d0 | Perhaps these ancient observatories perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars move. We are too busy watching evening television to care what's going on in the sky. To us, a simple rock alignment based on cosmic patterns looks like an Einsteinian feat. But a truly mysterious civilization would be one that made no cultural or architectural reference to the sky at all. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 3f8b40b | Without a doubt, Einstein's greatest blunder was having declared that lambda was his greatest blunder. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| ce976c2 | What are the chances that this first and only smart species in the history of life on Earth has enough smarts to completely figure out how the universe works? Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us yet we can agree that no amount of tutelage will ever leave a chimp fluent in trigonometry. Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are compared with chimpanzees. How much of the uni.. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| ac9903d | The easy part is the ray's 500-second speed-of-light jaunt from the Sun to Earth, through the void of interplanetary space. The hard part is the light's million-year adventure to get from the Sun's center to its surface. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 9188892 | The most accurate measurements to date reveal dark energy as the most prominent thing in town, currently responsible for 68 percent of all the mass-energy in the universe; dark matter comprises 27 percent, with regular matter comprising a mere 5 percent. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| bbc59e9 | To picture a pulsar, imagine the mass of the Sun packed into a ball the size of Manhattan. If that's hard to do, then maybe it's easier if you imagine stuffing about a billion elephants into a Chapstick casing. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| ff1b822 | The man who shouts wins battles; the quiet man wins the war. | war | Robert Ferrigno | |
| db363c1 | Children are simultaneously required to constitute themselves as autonomous subjects, responsible, free and conscious, and to constitute themselves as submissive, inert, obedient, conforming objects. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| a2a0369 | In order to understand the intensity of ritual forms, one must rid oneself of the idea that all happiness derives from nature, and all pleasure from the satisfaction of a desire. On the contrary, games, the sphere of play, reveal a passion for rules, a giddiness born of rules, and a force that comes from ceremony, and not desire. | sex fun joy religion play seduction games pleasure rules | Jean Baudrillard | |
| 8bd389c | Today cinema can place all its talent, all its technology in the service of reanimating what it itself contributed to liquidating. It only resurrects ghosts, and it itself is lost therein. | resurrection technology | Jean Baudrillard | |
| 0c44a61 | It is never too late to revive your origins. It is their destiny: since they were not the first to be in on history, they will be the first to immortalize everything by reconstitution (by putting things in museums, they can match in an instant the fossilization process nature took millions of years to complete). But the conceptions Americans have of the museum is much wider than our own. To them, everything is worthy of protection, embalmin.. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| a00d32a | So, there is no longer striking, nor work, but both simultaneously, that is to say something else: a magic of work, a trompel'oeil, a scenodrama (so as not to say a melodrama) of production, a collective dramaturgy on the empty stage of the social. | work strike | Jean Baudrillard | |
| 5e78857 | Mass(age) is the message. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| 9d776f1 | If being a nihilist, is carrying, to the unbearable limit of hegemonic systems, this radical trait of derision and of violence, this challenge that the system is summoned to answer through its own death, then I am a terrorist and nihilist in theory as the others are with their weapons. Theoretical violence, not truth, is the only resource left us. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| f91c6e6 | Silence is banished from our screens; it has no place in communication. Media images (and media texts resemble media images in every way) never fall silent: images and messages must follow one upon the other without interruption. But silence is exactly that - a blip in the circuitry, that minor catastrophe, that slip which, on television for instance, becomes highly meaningful - a break laden now with anxiety, now with jubilation, which con.. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| fe579cf | The disaffection, neurosis, anguish and frustration encountered by psychoanalysis comes no doubt from being unable to love or to be loved, from being unable to give or take pleasure, but the radical disenchatment comes from seduction and its failure. Only those who lie completely outside seduction are ill, even if they remain fully capable of loving and making love. Psychoanalysis believes it treats the disorder of sex and desire, but in re.. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| 7fadf2f | Why did this [Vietnam] war, so hard, so long, so ferocious, vanish from one day to the next as if by magic? Why did this American defeat (the largest reversal in the history of the USA) have no internal repercussions in America? If it had really signified the failure of the planetary strategy of the United States, it would necessarily have completely disrupted its internal balance and the American political system. | war politics vietnam power | Jean Baudrillard | |
| a41ab9b | Everything is destined to reappear as simulation. Landscapes as photography, woman as the sexual scenario, thoughts as writing, terrorism as fashion and the media, events as television. Things seem only to exist by virtue of this strange destiny. You wonder whether the world itself isn't just here to serve as advertising copy in some other world.' Jean Baudrillard, | Philip K. Dick | ||
| afec441 | But it must be seen that the term 'catastrophe' has this 'catastrophic' meaning of the end and annihilation only in a linear vision of accumulation and productive finality that the system imposes on us. Etymologically, the term only signifies the curvature, the winding down to the bottom of a cycle leading to what can be called the 'horizon of the event,' to the horizon of meaning, beyond which we cannot go. Beyond it, nothing takes place .. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| d47812c | The real joy of writing lies in the opportunity of being able to sacrifice a whole chapter for a single sentence, a complete sentence for a single word... | writing sublimation simplicity sublime | Jean Baudrillard | |
| e20a942 | To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have. One implies a presence, the other an absence. But it is more complicated than that because simulating is not pretending | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| 21e36a0 | When everything is social, suddenly nothing is. | philosophy social-media | Jean Baudrillard | |
| a24dcb7 | It is useless to dream of revolution through content, useless to dream of a revelation through form, because the medium and the real are now in a single nebula whose truth is indecipherable. | reality truth medium revolution media | Jean Baudrillard | |
| e3bc287 | Perhaps thought really is prayer. | Ellis Peters | ||
| f89ebad | Nothing learned is ever quite wasted. | Ellis Peters | ||
| b26c780 | Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity. | salvation souls | Ellis Peters | |
| d7c7173 | there are as holy persons outside orders as ever there are in, and not to trifle with truth, as good men out of the Christian church as most I've met within it. In the Holy Land I've known Saracens I'd trust before the common run of the crusaders, men honourable, generous and courteous, who would have scorned to haggle and jostle for place and trade as some of our allies did. Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under.. | Ellis Peters | ||
| 1bbf0c6 | So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?" | knowledge-of-people society strangers | Ellis Peters | |
| ea7d21d | I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians. | equality goodness religion crusades openmindedness tolerance | Ellis Peters | |
| 31fc448 | Don't reach for the halo too soon. You have plenty of time to enjoy yourself, even a little maliciously sometimes, before you settle down to being a saint. | humanity saintliness schadenfreude | Ellis Peters | |
| 8f2e8b9 | Assume that most times when you feel anxious, depressed, or angry you are not only strongly desiring but also commanding that something go well and that you get what you want. Cherchez le should, cherchez le must! Look for your should, look for your must! Don't give up until you find it. If you have trouble finding it, seek the help of a friend, relative, or REBT therapist who will help you find it. Persist! | Albert Ellis | ||
| 3a81d2d | What luck! If the theories of Epictetus, Karen Horney (who first talked about the "tyranny of the shoulds"), Alfred Korzybski (the founder of general semantics), and REBT are correct, you almost always bring on your emotional problems by rigidly adopting one of the basic methods of crooked thinking--musturbation. Therefore, if you understand how you upset yourself by slipping into irrational shoulds, oughts, demands, and commands, unconscio.. | Albert Ellis | ||
| 820eb05 | Whenever you have strong negative feelings because unfortunate things are actually happening to you or you imagine that they might occur, see whether these feelings healthfully follow from your wishes and desires to have better things occur. Or are you creating them by going beyond your preferences and inventing powerful shoulds, oughts, musts, demands, commands, and necessities? If so, you are turning concern and caution into overconcern, .. | Albert Ellis | ||
| d9702bf | Call me jaded, but I didn't see then and I don't see now how hugging, and counting and focusing on a flickering candle or, God help me, a favorite stuffed animal, can possibly make you forget the nine pounds of wriggling human forcing its way out of you the same way it got into you nine months-and nine pounds-ago. As the scientific theory goes, what goes in must come out. Eventually. Somehow. And the coming-out part is never as much fun as .. | Wendy Markham | ||
| 4749ee7 | He lay in darkness, like a sacrifice; he could hear the teeth of his leprosy devouring his flesh. There was a smell of contempt around him, insisting on his impotence. But his lips were bowed in a placid smile, a look of fondness, as if he had come at last to approve his disintegration. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| d9c68ed | Ah, deserve," sighed Kindwind. "The notion of deserved and undeserved is a fancy. Knowing both life and death, we endeavor to impose worth and meaning upon our deeds, and thereby to comfort our fear of impermanence. We choose to imagine that our lives merit continuance. Mayhap all sentience shares a similar fancy. Mayhap the Earth itself, being sentient in its fashion, shares it. Nonetheless it is a fancy. A wider gaze does not regard us in.. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| f074136 | Perfection cannot endure in an imperfect world. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 7e852f5 | That is Lord Foul's way in all things--to force his foes to become that which they most hate, and to destroy that which they most love. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 3c98951 | It may be that hope misleads. But hate--hate corrupts. I have been too quick to hate. I become like what I abhor. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| e6d6afa | For convenience, history is often viewed as a conflict between the instinct for order and the impulse toward chaos. Both are necessary: both are manifestations of the need to survive. Without order, nothing exists: without chaos, nothing grows. And yet the struggle between them sheds more blood than any other war. | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| ae5909a | But then a bubbling tenor voice said kindly, "Do not fear. It is a dream." The reassurance spread over him like a blanket. But he could not feel it with his hands, and the ambulance kept on moving. Needing the blanket, he clenched at the empty air until his knuckles were white with loneliness." | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 087bd38 | Her purchases just about busted her vacation budget, but what else is a vacation for, if not for overindulgence and mindless extravagance? | overindulgence vacation | Candace Schuler | |
| 0213bb4 | Maybe. We're all equals at the dark gate, no? The sands run for us all. Life is but a flicker shouting into the jaws of eternity. But it seems so damned unfair! | Glen Cook |