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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b112230 | When the world you're used to, that same old world you thought you knew so well, turns itself suddenly upside down, what can you do? Everything comes tumbling off the shelves of your expectations; nothing fits anymore. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| e65ea91 | So," said Tuck to himself. "Two years. She's been gone two years." He stood up and looked around, embarrassed, trying to clear the lump from his throat. But there was no one to see him. The cemetery was very quiet. In the branches of a willow behind him, a red-winged blackbird chirped. Tuck wiped his eyes hastily. Then he straightened his jacket again and drew up his hand in a brief salute. "Good girl," he said aloud. And then he turned and.. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 96820ce | Nonsense. It's elves! | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 223957a | Once the world of ideas has been transformed, reality cannot hold out for long. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Tom Holland | ||
| ca97fea | The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially | poverty | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | |
| 26d4506 | What makes comet wine so good is that the water-process detaches itself from the earth and thus brings about an altered state in the planet. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| 6372061 | We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and -- if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentrating all its desires and powers upon it -- we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| a3d021b | Die Wahrheit des Seins ist Wesen | hegelian-dialectic philosophy | Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich | |
| f5f71e7 | What we must do is bring nonhuman animals within our sphere of moral concern and cease to treat their lives as expendable for whatever trivial purposes we may have. | Peter Singer | ||
| c198a91 | Effective altruists do things like the following: *Living modestly and donating a large part of their income--often much more than the traditional tenth, or tithe--to the most effective charities; *Researching and discussing with others which charities are the most effective or drawing on research done by other independent evaluators; *Choosing the career in which they can earn most, not in order to be able to live affluently but so that th.. | Peter Singer | ||
| 280f868 | Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still valid; but we can now see that the construction of a free and equal society is a more difficult task than Marx realized. | Peter Singer | ||
| 381fe05 | For nomadic societies, there was no point in owning anything that one could not carry, but once humans settled down and developed a system of money, that limit to acquisition disappeared. | Peter Singer | ||
| 04ace4a | Voluntary euthanasia occurs only when, to the best of medical knowledge, a person is suffering from an incurable and painful or extremely distressing condition. In these circumstances one cannot say that to choose to die quickly is obviously irrational. | euthanasia utilitarianism | Peter Singer | |
| 8b769f1 | To say that life is meaningless is to express an attitude, not to state a fact | meaning moral-philosophy nihilism philosophy purpose | Peter Singer | |
| ccdaf1c | Worldwide, the poor leave a very small carbon footprint, but they will suffer the most from climate change. | peter singer | ||
| 831eaa8 | Time does not heal wounds without acknowledgement of what has happened. You need to clarify your feelings and express them in a way that defines in detail what you have lost and how much you care about what you have lost . . . - Peter Leech & Zeva Singer | Pete Walker | ||
| 11277c1 | So the researcher's central dilemma exists in an especially acute form in psychology: either the animal is not like us, in which case there is no reason for performing the experiment; or else the animal is like us, in which case we ought not to perform on the animal an experiment that would be considered outrageous if performed on one of us. Another | Peter Singer | ||
| c60fa79 | When we eat plants, food takes on a different quality. We take from the earth food that is ready for us and does not fight against us as we take it. | Peter Singer | ||
| 64b4af7 | Booker T. Washington tells an anecdote told to him by Frederick Douglass, about a time he was traveling and was asked to move and ride in the baggage car because of his race. A white supporter rushed up to apologize for this horrible offense. "I am sorry, Mr. Douglass, that you have been degraded in this manner," the person said. Douglass would have none of that. He wasn't angry. He wasn't hurt. He replied with great fervor: "They cannot de.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 4ec2d71 | It takes a special kind of humility to grasp that you know less, even as you know and grasp more and more. It's remembering Socrates' wisdom lay in the fact that he knew that he knew next to nothing. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 523aca0 | The only relationship between work and chatter is that one kills the other. Let | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a5593f5 | The hard thing isn't dreaming big. The hard thing is waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat when the dream turns into a nightmare. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 9cb329f | Pride blunts the very instrument we need to own in order to succeed: our mind. Our ability to learn, to adapt, to be flexible, to build relationships, all of this is dulled by pride. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| b044a29 | It is not enough to have great qualities; we should also have the management of them. --LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I | Ryan Holiday | ||
| ae26902 | Ego leads to envy and it rots the bones of people big and small. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 5c0d401 | We can seek to rationalize the worst behavior by pointing to outliers. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| b7b3681 | realized that the same drive and compulsion that had made me successful so early came with a price--as it had for so many others. It wasn't so much the amount of work but the outsized role it had taken in my sense of self. I was trapped so terribly inside my own head that I was a prisoner to my own thoughts. The | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 40c123d | Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, your worst enemy already lives inside you: your ego. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 4279fe2 | False ideas about yourself destroy you. For | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d1d043e | As the Quaker William Penn observed, "Buildings that lie so exposed to the weather need a good foundation." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7b70ed1 | That's how it seems to go: we're never happy with what we have, we want what others have too. We want to have more than everyone else. We start out knowing what is important to us, but once we've achieved it, we lose sight of our priorities. Ego sways us, and can ruin us. Compelled | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 4b1a61b | When Arthur Lee was sent to France and England to serve as one of America's diplomats during the Revolutionary War, instead of relishing the opportunity to work with his fellow diplomat Silas Deane and elder statesman Benjamin Franklin, he raged and resented them and suspected them of disliking him. Finally, Franklin wrote him a letter (one that we've probably all deserved to get at one point or another): "If you do not cure yourself of thi.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 92dc5f7 | The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 77e6f7c | Creativity is a matter of receptiveness and recognition. This cannot happen if you're convinced the world revolves around you. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| cd8a13d | magine if for every person you met, you thought of some way to help them, something you could do for them? And you looked at it in a way that entirely benefited them and not you. The cumulative effect this would have over time would be profound: You'd learn a great deal by solving diverse problems. You'd develop a reputation for being indispensable. You'd have countless new relationships. You'd have an enormous bank of favors to call upon d.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| f330187 | You know what is a better response to an attack or a slight or something you don't like? Love. That's right, love. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7cd7679 | we cannot be humble except by enduring humiliations." How" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 540c442 | Control your perceptions. Direct your actions properly. Willingly accept what's outside your control. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a5548a9 | Most of us are afraid of dying. But sometimes this fear begs the question: To protect what exactly? For a lot of people the answer is: hours of television, gossiping, gorging, wasting potential, reporting to a boring job, and on and on and on. Except, in the strictest sense, is this actually a life? Is this worth gripping so tightly and being afraid of losing? It doesn't sound like it. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| bf36603 | you must reclaim the ability to abstain because within it is your clarity and self-control. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| fb8f7e8 | The mind must be given relaxation--it will rise improved and sharper after a good break. Just as rich fields must not be forced--for they will quickly lose their fertility if never given a break--so constant work on the anvil will fracture the force of the mind. But it regains its powers if it is set free and relaxed for a while. Constant work gives rise to a certain kind of dullness and feebleness in the rational soul." --SENECA, ON TRANQU.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| e08ae26 | The great strategist Saul Alinsky believed that if you "push a negative hard enough and deep enough it will break through into its counterside." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 4c3e356 | No slavery is more disgraceful," he quipped, "than one which is self-imposed." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 70f8ba2 | Keep this thought handy when you feel a fit of rage coming on--it isn't manly to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore manlier. A real man doesn't give way to anger and discontent, and such a person has strength, courage, and endurance--unlike the angry and complaining. The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength." --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 11.18.5b" | Ryan Holiday |