December 2010
“ “Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here...”
– Albert Einstein, My Credo, Speech to the German League of Human Rights, Berlin (Autumn 1932); as published in Einstein: A Life in Science (1994) by Michael White and John Gribbin This repeats or revises some statements and ideas of Mein Weltbild (1931). (via amiquote)
“So this is what it’s like when love
leaves, and one is disappointed
that the...”
– Chris Forhan, Gouge, Adze, Rasp, Hammer (via leda-swanson)
“There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.”
– John Cage (via artemisdreaming & fuckyeahexistentialism)
“Walking beside a creek
in December, the black ice
windy with leaves,
you can...”
– Ted Kooser (via leda-swanson)
“They who go overseas change their skies, but not their souls.”
– Horace
“ The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions. ”
– Susan Sontag (via wildcat2030)
A Flower Blooms
blogut:
A flower blooms Showing the natural color It was born with While I have never known In what color I am to bloom.
Okamoto Kanoko
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...”
– Charles Bukowski (via dagnytaggart)
The Project Gutenberg Project: Drawing is highly... →
projectgutenberg:
Drawing is highly calculated to enhance feminine beauty; the thoughts it excites are soothing and serene, the gentle enthusiasm that is felt during this delightful occupation not only dissipates melancholy and morbid sensibility, but by developing the judgment and feeling, imparts a higher tone of…
“After winning the Nobel Prize, Planck toured around giving a speech. The...”
– Charlie Munger’s Address: Deserved Trust
(via wildcat2030)
“Art is not what you see. It is what you make others see.”
– Edgas Degas (via xwidep)
November 2010
projectgutenberg:
Do not serve greasy soups.
- Mary Green, Better Meals for Less Money (1917) [full text]
“We gradually become ourselves through appropriation of what we are not (or not...”
– The New Atlantis » How Can I Possibly Be Free? (via wildcat2030)