January 2012
25 posts
“Who’s There?” Is The Self A Convenient Fiction? |... →
No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a...
– Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, vol. 1 (p. 60 of the edition pictured) as quoted in:
Pieces Of Light: The madeleine moment
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating...
– Henri L. Bergson (via dewdropsoflove)
The magic of art is in the accessibility to singular states of sight and...
– Xaos: The Aesthetic Ground part 3 (via wildcat2030)
“Internal mental experience is not the product of a photographic process....
– Daniel J. Siegel, completed his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and his post-graduate medical education at UCLA, The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being, W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, p. 166-167. (via amiquote)
Ending the year with a deep celebration, assume in the following that Plato is...
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December 2011
29 posts
Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the...
– Albert Einstein (via elige)
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in...
– Henry David Thoreau (via wunderlast)
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...
– Neil Gaiman (via spycnsweet)
“If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human...
– Václav Havel, Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. Former President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic, (1936-2011), Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvizdala (English translation by Paul Wilson), 1990, Ch. 1 : Growing Up...
Antonio Damasio: The quest to understand...
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Calabi–Yau manifold large
universe-of-waves:
The next medium, whatever it is—it may be the extension of consciousness—will...
– Marshall McLuhan, 1962 (via ayjay
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“There are no exact guidelines. There are probably no guidelines at all. The...
– Václav Havel, Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. Former President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic, (1936-2011), Address upon receiving the Open Society Prize awarded by Central European University, 24 June 1999. (via amiquote)
“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart,...
– Václav Havel, Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. Former President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic, (1936-2011), International Herald Tribune, 21 February 1990 (via amiquote)
“It’s not true that you should first think up an idea for a better world...
– Václav Havel, Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. Former President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic, (1936-2011), Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvizdala (English translation by Paul Wilson), 1990, Ch. 1 : Growing Up...
50 best photos from The Natural World - The Big... →
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by...
– Andre Gide, author, Nobel laureate (1869-1951)
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
– Friedrich Schiller
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New article in the series - The Aesthetic Ground... →