January 2012
“But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil...”
– Mikhail Bulgakov
nomorenowhere:
The Revolution will be Tumbled: Alright people, we need to concern ourselves with ACTA
chocotaur:
Five facts:
1. ACTA isn’t the “European” SOPA. It’s nearly GLOBAL, and will apply to every country that signs the treaty.
2. ACTA is far more aggressive. ACTA will not simply affect websites and have them blocked out of the internet - its measures go as far as surveillance of...
“I have not here been considering the literary use of language, but merely...”
– George Orwell
“The word SOPA means “trash” in Swedish. The word PIPA means “a pipe” in Swedish....”
– excerpt, Pirate Bay SOPA press release (via heartmindspirit)
“Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is...”
– Aldous Huxley
“It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.”
– Alfred North Whitehead
I love science and all, but science has had a difficult time covering emotions, feelings, intuition, love, fantasy, imagination, pleasure, pain, inspiration, art, ecstacy, peak experience, euphoria, relationships, whim, jealousy, empathy, etc. So, basically, it doesn’t cover humanity and our experience. Science hasn’t solved the problematic and destructive state of the human psyche....
“All men to me are god-like Gods!
My eyes no longer see
vice or fault. Life on...”
– Sant Tukaram (1608-1649)
“The word familia did not originally signify the composite ideal of...”
– Friedrich Engels (via forrestonfire)
“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense...”
– Henry James
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“At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number...”
– Albert Camus
“Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. One can...”
– Albert Einstein
“I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that...”
– Albert Einstein
“You see but you do not observe.”
– Sherlock Holmes
“Human history is in essence a history of ideas.”
– H.G. Wells, The Outline of History
“I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent...”
– Jeanette Winterson, British novelist, Gut symmetries, Granta Books, 1997, p. 25. (tnx withnailrules)
“Whatever the outside world is really like, we use our senses to explore and map...”
– Joseph O’Connor
“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more...”
– Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture in Literature (via uteruses-before-duderuses)
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“As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No...”
– Anthony De Mello, Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality (via universoul)
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“It’s easy to take off your clothes and have sex. People do it all the time. But...”
– Rob Bell (via atypicalteenagelife)
“Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength- carrying two days at...”
– Corrie Ten Boom (via myquotelibrary)
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I...”
– Rumi (via horrorparadox)
“The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it...”
– Henry Miller (via lucifelle)
“…if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always...”
– Richard Yates (Revolutionary Road)
“Nostalgia is denial, denial of the painful present.. The name for this denial is...”
– Midnight in Paris (via elige)
“Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for...”
– Huey P Newton (via robertricardoreese)
“Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves....”
– Osho (via elige)
“Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalised...”
– Arthur Evans (via jerichoblack, slychedelic)