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
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“It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”
– Buddha
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“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...
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“But most of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us...”
– Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman; ISBN: 978-0-14-0303653-1
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books
Book reading has become nothing more than a source of leisurely pleasure. It is no longer regarded in as high esteem as it was from the 17th-19th centuries. It is not the means by which people express their thoughts rationally, sequentially, and with a large amount of focus on expository relevance. Books have become second class citizens in the realm of communication. Now, the News, T.V, Radio and...
“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere...”
– Immanuel Kant (via thelittlephilosopher)
“I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and...”
– Khalil Gibran (via thelittlephilosopher)
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
– Albert Einstein (via thelittlephilosopher)
“Life is a process of becoming. A combination of states we have to go through....”
– Anais Nin (via thelittlephilosopher)
“To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do...”
–
Lao Tzu
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