#philosophy

"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions."

"Dance on the stage of life with love in your heart, a smile on your face, and a great vision in your mind."

"Amazon.com Amazon.com is the Church of Consumer Capitalismwhose ethics demands we know the price of everything,the value of absolutely nothing of true moral valueand most importantly ~Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought."

"YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,'said the dewdrop to the lake."

"It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me."

"Bespeckled Heroes [10w] Great heroes in 100 years become statues speckled with birdshit."

"All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing."

"There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads."

"Coins [10w] Statesmen whose faces are on coins are amenable to change."

"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."

"The Warrior's Way To the warrior,peace is an annoying interruption of war."

"❞ [10w] "Let's cuddle like a quotation mark filling a blank page."

"It is culture that is the bully."Orn Ald yos'Senchul to Theo Waitley, Saltation"

"Elegance in Simplicity [10w] The more complex the problem,the simpler the correct answer."

"Eye of God [10w] The Hubble-Universe is a microchip in the Eye of God."

"Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying 'Know thyself."

"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it."

"History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.”--from Past Present and Future are One"

"Broken Heart [10W] The broken heart becomes volcanic, forever rumbling anddispersing ash."

"The Squeaky Wheel The squeaky wheel ~will put you $374.43 in the holeafter replacing the brake pad, rotorsand $500 with a new master cylinder."