#philosophy

"when somebody plays music, you listen. you just follow those sounds, and eventually you understand the music. the point can't be explained in words because music is not words, but after listening for a while, you understand the point of it, and that point is the music itself. in exactly the same way, you can listen to all experiences."

"Knowledge is the essence of organized information systems. Wisdom is the essence of knowledge and experience."

"In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself."

"In a True Global World... [10w] Famous people should be allowed to travel without a passport."

"Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking."

"A hug is a priceless gift of love and kindness."

"To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature."

"The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic."

"Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine."

"It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment."

"Poetry as Conspiracy [10w] A poem is unspoken conspiracy between the reader and poet."

"Read vs. Write If you want to know about life second hand, read;if you want to experience life directly, write."

"Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul."

"My Fathers Last Words My dad was a sadist and whorehound.His last words were,'Son, I have a million dollars hidden in the."

"Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal."

"The ramdomness of events in the world is so lacking in logic that we give it names like destiny, fate, karma and kismat to deal with the irrationality of its sequence"

"The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education."

"Ignore a person kill the person."

"Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something(All The King's Men)"

"♫ I learned a lesson today: never judge a person by the way they act, nor how they dress, or the way they have their disabilities. Because everyone on Earth suffers the same hell, whether in love or hate, life or death."