February 2012
12 posts
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I am conducting a study for my Cognitive...
I am conducting a study that is just for class use. I need as many participants as possible. This will not take more than 10 minutes. I would really appreciate if people could help.
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Inspired by Nietzsche's, Twilight of the Idols.
By believing that there is something greater beyond this world, something more true, more real, more perfect, more objective, we diminish the power of this world. Our world is reduced to nothing more than a stepping stone allowing us to reach some higher power. This world that we inhabit is the last stop. It is the only by chance that we are here on this planet, in this moment, breathing the air...
January 2012
6 posts
“Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in...”
– Max Ehrmann, Desiderata (via caraobrien)
dailynietzsche:
“To elude boredom man either works harder than is required to satisfy his other needs or he invents play, but he may become tired of play and longs for a third condition which stands in the same relation to play as floating does to dancing and dancing to walking. This third condition is a state of serene agitation; the vision of happiness for the artist and the philosopher.”
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December 2011
49 posts
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“A book ought to be an ice pick, to break up the frozen sea within us.”
– Franz Kafka (via g0ssipquirrell)
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“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via thelittlephilosopher)
“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the...”
– John Burroughs
(via thelittlephilosopher)
“It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”
– Buddha
(via thelittlephilosopher)
“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”
– Benjamin Franklin (via thelittlephilosopher)
“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth...”
– Gabriel García Márquez (via thelittlephilosopher)
“Rest, nature, books, music… such is my idea of happiness.”
– Leo Tolstoy (via pavorst)
“You are undone once you forget that the fruits of this earth belong to us all,...”
– Jean Jacques Rousseau (via nowaitninjas)
“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
– Albert Einstein (via thelittlephilosopher)
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Knowledge & Apathy In Our Human Community.
The past few days I have found myself attacked aggressively by the social criticism, and political philosophy I have been reading. I personify the wealth of knowledge I have found in these works because the more I have read, the more alive the become. Engulfing my mind’s eye. I see in my daily doings, in the doings of others, and more tragically in the environment that surrounds me [New...
“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do...”
– Pablo Picasso (via caraobrien)
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NYC - Homelessness Blues.
I have been back home in NYC for about a week now. I won’t delve to far to the proceeding topic, it’s late, but its about respect. How can people become so detached from one another that they can step, push, stare, spit or even laugh at one another without feeling guilty? What is the meaning of the word respect to a general contemporary audience of the 21st century? I see people who...