October 2011
1 post
“I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of...”
– - Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society (via underpaidgenius)
September 2011
1 post
2 tags
“In complex systems there is no answer as to what you are supposed to be...”
– Robert Sapolsky - Chaos and Reductionism (via clothedinsky)
March 2011
1 post
“I couldn’t get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a...”
– Charles Bukowski (via brokenmachine)
“the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man...”
– Albert Schweitzer (via lastchatwithphontaine)
October 2009
7 posts
“That’s the kind of way they have of dealing with children and they always have....”
– Maurice Sendak (via cloud8) (via ambivalence)
“Men can live without air a few minutes, without water for about two weeks,...”
– Kent Ruth
“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day,...”
– Stephen Vincent Benet
“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices....”
– Katherine Mansfield
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do...”
– Mark Twain
September 2009
1 post
“What we are encountering is a panicky, an almost hysterical attempt to escape...”
– Henry Candy (1926)
August 2009
18 posts
“We have to have enough faith in our world-view to work from it, but not that...”
– David Bohm
“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.”
– ~Christopher Morle
“It’s called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all...”
– Orson Scott Card (via loveyourchaos)
“The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no...”
– Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
“Inventing the future requires giving up control. No one with a compelling...”
– George Land
“Lightning curls around the trunk of Old Tree.
Sap curdles close to the...”
– Old Tree Healing by Taiko Haessler
“Rabbit’s clever,” said Pooh thoughtfully.
“Yes,” said...”
– A.A. Milne
“I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you look at it...”
– -Poul Anderson
“Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don’t bite everybody.”
– Stanislaw Lec
“It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
– Mae West
“The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.”
– Joe Ancis
“There is nothing worse than self-deception – when the deceiver is always at home...”
– Socrates
“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on...”
– D. P. Barron
“The world needs uninhibited thinkers, not afraid of far out speculations;
it...”
– Arthur C. Clarke
“If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.”
“I say unto you; one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to...”
– Nietzsche