May 2010
12 posts
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“Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.”
- Henry Rollins
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
- Galileo Galilei
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“First in the train of gods, he fashioned Love. And Acusilaus agrees with Hesiod. Thus numerous are the witnesses who acknowledge Love to be the eldest of the gods. And not only is he the eldest, he is also the source of the greatest benefits to us. For I know not any greater blessing to a young man who is beginning life than a virtuous lover or to the lover than a beloved youth. For the...
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“After the division the two parts of man, each desiring his other half, came together, and throwing their arms about one another, entwined in mutual embraces, longing to grow into one, they were on the point of dying from hunger and self-neglect, because they did not like to do anything apart; and when one of the halves died and the other survived, the survivor sought another mate, man or...
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“According to Greek Mythology, humans were originally created with 4 arms, 4 legs & a head with 2 faces. Fearing their power Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.”
- Plato (The Symposium)
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“For every grain of sand on our entire planet, there are a million stars out there in space. A million stars just like our sun, for every grain of sand and where there are stars there may be planets and where there are planets there may be life. It happened here, so where is everyone else?”
- Sam Neill (BBC’s Space)
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“She wants to know if I love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.”
- Jonothan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close)
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“That was the only time I ever hear Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. “You’re father’s right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for...
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“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
- Christian (Moulin Rouge)
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“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
- Galileo Galilei
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“…When I read Feynman’s description of a rose - in which he explained how he could experience the fragrance and beauty of the flower as fully as anyone, but how his knowledge of physics enriched the experience enormously because he could also take in the wonder and magnificence of the underlying molecular, atomic, and subatomic processes – I was hooked for good. I wanted what...
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”[…] the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes...